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It was a shocking revelation, further accentuating widely held fact that over 85 per cent of accidents in aviation are caused by human factor or human error. Inexperienced pilots/engineers are even doing more damage to a sector that is life dependent. Ever wonder just who’s behind that cockpit door, flying you between Lagos and Abuja, Abuja and Accra or New York and Los Angeles or from Washington Dulles to Amsterdam? If you knew, you might…

All over the world, international airports cast the first physical image of any country. It tells a lot about the orderliness or otherwise of the government in regulating its affairs. While most countries try as much as possible to put forward a healthy image of their environment, Nigeria does the otherwise as first time visitors to the country are confronted with myriad of disorderliness. Until recently when the Lagos State Government took the decision to…

Nigerian airports in recent times won the acclaim of Nigerians and the international community, especially in the wake of the executive order for improvement to the ease of doing business across board.   Over the years and through successive administrations, the Nigeria Airports Authorities have been striving for improvements in facilities and services. However, the government Executive Order issued last year provided an added impetus to the achievement of a number of lofty goals. Among…

Aviation is a key part of the economic lifeblood of Africa. It supports 6.9 million jobs and $80 billion in GDP. It carries people and goods across and outside the continent, and brings in economic investment, tourism, trade and aid. Aviation in Africa is promising. Over the next two decades African aviation is forecast to grow at 5.4 percent a year—nearly tripling in size. The continent’s top ten fastest growing markets are growing at an…

Should Nigeria float a national airline or not? This project is gaining currency by the day. WOLE SHADARE writes that there is no better time than now to float a national airline The big question Each time people fly airlines of other countries, what readily comes to mind is, why can’t Nigeria have its own carrier? The debate around a national for the country is gaining currency by the day just as the government has…

  Their situation is very pathetic; one that you would never wish for even your enemy. They looked dejected with abject poverty playing a wry smile on their faces. They are former Nigeria Airways workers. They served the airline and the country with dedication and commitment. Many of them are dying daily waiting for their final entitlements 13 years after the airline was liquidated. At their number 10 Afisman Drive secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos, over a hundred…

  By Stephen Oche   Salamatu Eluma was until recently the Director of Human Resources at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN. That was until the Federal government approved a management reorganization which moved her, in the same position, along with other affected staff, from FAAN to sister organization, the Accident and Investigation Bureau, AIB But rather than toe the path of honour and obedience to lawful authority, Salamatu  Eluma has been going about…

Not a few believed that solving Nigeria’s aviation problem is not rocket science and one that is very achievable. Like magic, sanity seems to be returning to Nigeria’s premier airport, the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, courtesy Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s executive orders, which tend to seek ways to ease difficulty in doing business in the country.   First was resolving the chaotic and not too straight forward issuance of visa on arrival for foreigners coming…

By Mathew Adedayo It is an indisputable fact that the aviation industry in Nigeria is in dire straits. This is a reflection of the inefficiency, lack of foresight, mismanagement and corruption in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which have forced the Federal Government to demote, dismiss and asked many workers in the agency to refund some monies. Also, the stifling economic recession that is forcing government to offer for sale some national assets,…