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FAAN, e-hailing operators: Imperative of balancing passenger convenience with airport security

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Wole Shadare

Across Nigeria’s major aviation gateways, the explosion of app-based rideshare services like Uber and Bolt has revolutionised ground transport, delivering unprecedented convenience to arriving passengers. However, this digital mobility boom has introduced complex operational challenges at terminals. FAAN is implementing stricter oversight measures, aiming not to restrict modern e-hailing platforms, but to seamlessly integrate them into a secure, transparent, and world-class airport ecosystem, writes WOLE SHADARE Across global civil aviation, the airport landside experience, spanning…

How operators bungled peace talk, as Najomo pleads with union to suspend strike action

Posted on August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 by Wole Shadare

The Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Chris Najomo, has appealed to the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) to suspend its ongoing industrial action to lessen the disruption to passengers and key industry stakeholders. In a statement he personally signed, Najomo acknowledged the union’s picketing of Air Peace and several other airlines over alleged anti-labour practices and the non-remittance of the statutory 5% Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) and Cargo Sales…

Airline operators beg FG to suspend charges to ease cash flow

Posted on May 25, 2026May 25, 2026 by Wole Shadare

Deny debt claim, seek TSC, CSC abolition The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has appealed to the Federal Government for a temporary suspension of statutory charges to ease cash flow challenges, citing the Iran-Israel/United States conflict as one of the factors worsening operational costs globally. AON’s argument is that they aren’t trying to rob the government; they are simply trapped in an unprecedented liquidity squeeze. This comes as the carriers denied claims that they owe…

Operators: We ‘ve few days to sustain air travel despite FG’s intervention

Posted on April 27, 2026April 27, 2026 by Wole Shadare

We are pouring water into basket-Uriesi Nwuba-Price increase’ll plummet passenger traffic The Nigerian aviation sector is currently facing a severe liquidity crisis, with no respite in sight for airlines despite the Federal Government’s decision to cut airlines’ debts by 30 per cent. The carriers said they cannot take any more hits from an astronomical 300 per cent rise in jet fuel prices. They said operational costs have reached a breaking point, with current revenues no…

$300 helicopter levy: NAMA to sanction defaulting operators, to shut down facilities, others

Posted on June 25, 2025June 25, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Issues seven days payment notice enforcement The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has notified all stakeholders, especially oil and gas operators, of the need for full compliance with the provision of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Act on the prompt payment of helicopter landing levies for air navigation services rendered by the Agency within the Nigerian airspace and cover operations at Oil Fields, Terminals, Platforms, Rigs, Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units,…

$300 helicopter levy: Expert seeks operators’ compliance

Posted on June 25, 2025June 25, 2025 by Wole Shadare

A former Director of Air Transport Management in the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Hassan Tai Ejibunu has called on oil companies engaging in offshore operations and other players who rely heavily on helicopter transport for personnel and equipment to comply with the regulatory enforcement regime approved by the Federal government. He explained that the federal government’s introduction of the levy was part of its targeted contribution toward the maintenance, modernisation, and expansion…

‘$300 helicopter levy re-introduction never in contemplation of NAMA’

Posted on November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has dismissed reports that it was planning to reintroduction the $300 landing fee from helicopter operators in the country. The agency in a statement by its spokesman, Abdullahi Musa disclosed that the issue had been put on hold since May 2024 with the intervention of the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo who, along with the agency is still making consultations with critical stakeholders on the…

Forex scarcity forces operators to ‘cannibalise’ disused airplanes as carriers face existential threat

Posted on September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Wole Shadare

Why 60% aircraft on offshore maintenance can’t return, Operators deplore spare price gouging, scarcity, travellers lament The lack of foreign exchange for airlines to bring back their aeroplanes from maintenance overseas has put enormous pressure on the operators. Some have resorted to ‘cannibalising’ by using some parts of their unserviceable aircraft for the ones in use. Lying on the apron across many of the country’s airports are aircraft without engines and other parts which…

Operators laud judiciary for setting aside Nigeria Air project

Posted on August 6, 2024 by Wole Shadare

Airline operators under the aegis of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) have lauded the judiciary for upholding justice and what it described as standing for what is right in its delivery of judgment on August 5, 2024, against the purported sale of Nigeria Air shares and the partnership between it and Ethiopian Airlines. Justice A. Alagoa of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos declared in the judgment that the action, conduct and or decisions…

NCAA grounds 10 illegal operators over $15 million revenue loss, drug trafficking, security, others

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Wole Shadare

Owners to commence recertification process The Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations 2023 Part 18.3.4 forbids holders of PNCF from using their aircraft for carriage of passengers, cargo or email for hire or reward (commercial operation or charter services) As a result of flagrant disregard of this rule, the NCAA had earlier directed all holders of PNCF to undergo re-evaluation which should have been concluded by April 19th, 2024. Consequently, the NCAA has suspended the permit…