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The Association of Ground Handlers of Nigeria (AGHAN) is calling on the Federal Government to adjust and waive the annual five per cent concession fee for ground handling companies in the country’s aviation sector.
Making this call, the Chairman of AGHAN, Mr Olaniyi Adigun, said the removal of the five per cent concession fee, especially for 2020 financial year became imperative for the survival of the AGHAN members.
Besides making case for the adjustment and removal of five per cent concession fee, the ground handlers equally called for custom duty waivers for the importation of its equipment.
AGHAN used the opportunity to challenge the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to regulate ground handling charges, warning that safety may be compromised if the right policy by the regulatory agency was not put in place.
NDLEA nabs three with 137.8kg of cocaine at Lagos airport NDLEA nabs three with 137.8kg of cocaine at Lagos airport
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The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos International Airport, has arrested three suspects all males with 137.8 kilograms of cocaine.
All the suspects were caught on the 6th and 8th of January 2021 with the illicit drugs neatly hidden inside hair relaxers, embroidery tailoring materials and shirts packaged with carbon and other oily substances to avoid being detected by the scanning machines.
The suspected drug traffickers whose names were given as Okeke Uchenna and Azubuike Jeremiah Emeka were caught by officials of the agency during the inward clearance of Ethiopian airlines from Brazil while Abdul Musa, a freight forwarder was nabbed while trying to export Cocaine to India through the cargo warehouse of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company, SAHCO in Lagos.
The all male suspects were arrested at the Lagos International Airport, on January 6 and 8, 2021 with the illicit drugs hidden inside hair relaxers, embroidery tailoring materials and shirts packaged with carbon and other oily substances to avoid being detected by the scanning machines.
Aviation industry stakeholders in this report recommend ways to improve air transportation in the country, writes Chinedu Eze
The Nigerian aviation sector is still apprehensive about the effects of the second wave of the COVID-19 on passenger traffic. But the availability of the vaccine gives hope that the damage the virus would wrought in the sector henceforth would be temporary, as global health agencies and governments strive to ensure that coronavirus vaccine is distributed to every part of the world.
In Nigeria, old illness suffered by the airlines was exacerbated by the pandemic and left the operators writhing in pains. But so far, since after the lockdown none of the airline has gone under.