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Nigeria, again, opened itself negatively to the global community about a week ago when a foreigner, precisely a Nigerien, was seen crawling out of an aircraft engine that was settling for take-off. The experience, which caught passengers and crew by surprise, no doubt, added to the myriad of embarrassing and episodic surprises the country has continued to export to the outside world. All over the world, save for some third world countries, tight security is…

The decision by the Federal Government to earmark N8.5 billion for national airline in this year’s budget suggests that the dream for a national carrier could well be alive, WOLE SHADARE reports   Despondency The news of suspension of planned national carrier for Nigeria by the Federal Government late last year jolted a lot of people, who felt that Nigeria has again truncated a great opportunity to bequeath to the country an airline that would…

By Muan E’mbe Success, an English proverb goes, has many fathers while failure is an orphan. Nothing exemplifies and illustrates this saying more than the euphoria that attended the commissioning of the new terminal at  Port Harcourt International airport, Omagwa, Rivers state by President Mohammadu Buhari on October 25, 2018.  As I pen this article, Abuja is similarly agog with frenzy as President Buhari, once again mounts the rostrum today, December 20th, 2018 to commission…

  By Kabir Hadejia   The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is the umbrella body saddled with the onerous task of regulating the country’s aviation sector. With this, the authority must both be technically and procedurally competent to handle any, or all the issues in the industry. Unlike the road transport sector that is an all-comers’ affairs because its regulations are not obeyed, making it to be in total disarray, leading to colossal loss of…

The establishment of a national carrier for the country, Nigeria Air, is in top gear as a result of repeated calls from a section of the society. Nigeria Air is scheduled to commence operations on December 19, 2018. The proposed national carrier targets 81 routes, comprising 40 domestic, regional and sub-regional and 41 international routes. In the early 1960s and 1970s, Nigerians took great delight in national companies like Nigeria Airways and Nigeria National Shipping…

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…