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Airlines fear new tax law may paralyse businesses, raise ticket fares, reduce passenger traffic

Posted on by Wole Shadare
Airlines fear new tax law may paralyse businesses, raise ticket fares, reduce passenger traffic

        Reform may have devastating effects on aviation sector-Boyo         Tinubu already signed  treaty against tax on aviation-IATA          New Tax policy to enhance ease of doing business-FIRS There is a consensus among airline operators and aviation allied companies that the new tax reform of the Federal Government is capable of doing incalculable damage to the aviation ecosystem.   Nigeria’s new tax law, enacted through the…

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Disruptive passenger charged to court, remanded in Kirikiri prison 

Posted on by Wole Shadare
Disruptive passenger charged to court, remanded in Kirikiri prison 

  Comfort Emmanson, the passenger who assaulted airline officials on an Ibom Air flight inbound Lagos from Uyo, has reportedly been charged to court. Tunde Moshood, the special adviser on media and communications to the minister of aviation and aerospace development, said Emmanson is remanded in Kirikiri correctional facility. Moshood spoke in a post on X on Monday — shortly after the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said enforcement action will soon become more frequent…

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Ibom Air places travel restriction on irate passenger Emmanson over assault on cabin crew

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Ibom Air places travel restriction on irate passenger Emmanson over assault on cabin crew

Passenger arrested   Ibom Air has given a detailed report of how a passenger, Ms. Comfort Emmanson, on its flight, assaulted one of the crew members of the airline. Consequently, the airline has placed travel restrictions on the passenger for her disruptive behaviour and assault on its crew member. The airline in a statement on Monday said the conduct of Emmanson on its flight to Lagos from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, posed a serious threat…

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