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  To support Western and Central African markets Visa, a global payments technology company, today announced that it has opened its regional headquarters for the Western and Central Africa region in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. Visa staff will work with local governments, financial institutions and merchants to bring the benefits of electronic payments, and introduce new payments technologies such as mVisa to more people in Cote D’Ivoire and the wider Western and Central Africa cluster. mVisa…

I visited Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State Tuesday this week. I was part of a media team that was invited to cover the resumption of Arik’s flights to the city, more than one year after the carrier withdrew services to the airport. Arik’s withdrawal from Maiduguri was not unconnected with unrest in the North East, especially Borno State where the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents held sway before the military degraded them (Boko Haram) and…

700 workers of defunct airline died in 11 years   Over 2000 former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways are uncertain and confused over the N74 billion severance allowances promised them by the Federal Government early this year. They had expressed confidence and hope that the Minister of State of Aviation, Hadi Sirika’s pronouncement that government would look into the matter following the setting up of a committee to look into it raised their hope…

The project was thought to have been put in the cooler, but the appointment of advisors for a new national airline has revived hope for the much anticipated carrier. WOLE SHADARE writes   It initially appeared as if the national carrier and airports concession projects were dead. The national carrier project was one of the campaign promises of the Federal Government. Consequently, on assumption of power, the government floated a committee to look at the…

Wife of former Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mazi Nnamdi Udoh has passed away. Elder Mrs. Nnenna Udoh died peacefully on the early morning of  Monday 17 April, 2017 .    She was educated at Ututu Girls secondary School, Arochukwu- where she served as the Senior Prefect, Alvan Ikoku College of Education Owerri and University of Nigeria Nsukka and majored as a specialist in Child Education.   Until her death, she was…