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The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Mr Festus Keyamo few weeks ago opened a fresh page of controversy when he announced the suspension of the Nigeria

Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called for the suspension of flight operations into Nigeria by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. This, he said, was due to the denial of Air Peace right to operate to London. The legal luminary said the British carriers should also be suspended pending when Nigeria's Air Peace is…

Stakeholders in various sectors yesterday set the agenda for the new ministers inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Those who spoke included experts in various sectors and ordinary Nigerians. They said there was no time to waste because Nigeria required serious rejuvenation to break the yoke of poverty, deprivation, insecurity, unemployment and inflation, among others.…

Stakeholders in the aviation sector have set agenda for the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN. They advised him to focus on reviewing the nation's bilateral Air service agreements (BASAs) to make them more mutually beneficial. Former General Secretary of the Aviation Roundtable and Safety Initiative (ASRTI), Group Capt. John Ojikutu,…

Except for the “botched” transactions, Nigeria Air would have been a subsidiary of Ethiopian Airlines, the largest airline in Africa which has started a journey of expanding air connectivity in Africa through partnership and collaboration to set up new airlines on the continent. In advancing its slogan as, “The New Spirit of Africa”, the airline…

Passengers using the old terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) have decried the breakdown of facilities at the terminal which is causing flight delays and slowing down facilitation. Of particular concern, according to the passengers, is the non-functionality of the terminal’s conveyor belt used to move passenger luggage in and out of aircraft.…

On his part, the Secretary-General, Aviation RoundTable, Olumide Ohunayo, noted that although this is coming at the last lap of the end of the administration, the effort of the minister is commendable.

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Some aviation experts have urged the Federal Government to grant operational licences to airline operators to import Jet-A fuel, with a view to reducing the current price hike of the product.

There is worry among experts and stakeholders over lack of coordination, rivalry and absence of a central command and control structure at Nigeria’s international airports, Daily Trust on Sunday can report. This, they say, poses threat to the security architecture of the country and exposes the personnel to compromise while giving leverage to people with […]