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Luggage theft: Lodge complaints with airlines, NCCA tells passengers The Punch
Published 4 July 2021
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has urged air passengers to lodge their complaints about missing luggage with airlines as quickly as possible.
Some passengers have recently lamented the disappearance and theft of their luggage at the airport.
An air traveller, Tawakalitu Balogun, who travelled to Nigeria from the United States using Qatar Airways in June, narrated her experience to our correspondent.
“It was the second time I was travelling to and fro the US; nothing like that happened the first time. A designer top and shorts I got for my partner and myself got missing; my sister-in-law who had just given birth needed some clothes to return to work; so I got her five gowns but they all got missing,” she said.
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Aviation sector reforms long overdue The Punch
Published 2 July 2021
NIGERIA’S global reputation took a further hit recently when malfunctioning runway lights compelled delays and the diversion of Lagos-bound international flights. The collapse of the lights made landing at night unsafe and saw British Airways, among other foreign airliners, detouring to Abuja while the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority suspended night-time landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. This national embarrassment reflects the crisis of infrastructure and inefficiency in the troubled domestic aviation sector and makes urgent reforms imperative to reposition it to reap its immense potential.
In an industry where accidents, when they occur, are devastating in their human and economic costs, safety is of paramount importance. Civil aviation is accordingly one of the world’s most regulated industries. But characterised by low investment, inefficiency, maladministration, c
Managing Director, Finchglow Group, Bernard Bankole
The Managing Director of Finchglow Travels and former President of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Bankole Bernard, in this interview speaks about his expectations for the economy post Covid-19 to in order spur economic recovery. Chinedu Eze brings the excerpts:
What do you think Nigeria may be losing due to these ban on some countries over COVID-19?
Well, there is what we call post COVID-19 recovery. And a lot of countries that seem to understand what they are doing are already experiencing post-COVID-19 recovery. Putting relevant measures in place and capitalizing on the weakness of other countries within the economies around the world. For not allowing flow of movement, as it were, due to fears, will continue to make us lose out. I will give you an instance. I hope you know that COVID-19 test in America is free. Nobody charges one dollar for COVID-19 test in America. I just got back from America. A