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Inside High-Stakes Nigeria’s First International Airshow

Posted on by Wole Shadare
Inside High-Stakes Nigeria’s First International Airshow

Far from a mere spectacle of aerial acrobatics, the Nigerian international airshow is a high-stakes, multi-billion-dollar global marketplace, a diplomatic arena, and the engine room of the future of flight, writes WOLE SHADARE Historically, while Nigeria has a strong aviation sector dating back 100 years (celebrating a century of aviation in 2025), it has not hosted a major, internationally recognised International Air Show on the scale of events like Dubai, Farnborough, or Paris—until very recently….

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United to airlift record 3.1 million combined international, domestic passengers over Labour Day Weekend

Posted on by Wole Shadare
United to airlift record 3.1 million combined international, domestic passengers over Labour Day Weekend

United is expecting to airlift around 3.1 million passengers over the Labour Day travel period between Thursday, August 28 and Tuesday, September 2 – about 220,000 more than last year.  This would be the most passengers the airline has ever flown over the Labour Day holiday. The carrier also expects about 50 million people will have flown United this June, July and August – a new record high. The breakdown shows that the carrier will…

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KWAM 1 placed on domestic, int’l no flight list

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KWAM 1 placed on domestic, int’l no flight list

Crew barred from flying, says crew, musician violated ICAO safety protocol Describes action as ‘loss of sanity’     The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo said preliminary report and video footage he received from all the relevant aviation agencies regarding the altercation between the staff, crew of ValueJet and Kwam 1 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday, August 7, 2025 showed that the Fuji musician and pilots went…

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