Analysis

NIGERIA Immigration Service (NIS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have resolved to partner to delivering a safe, humane and orderly border control systems across service windows to improve passengers’ migration experiences. These agencies made this known in a joint communiqué issued at the end of a-three-day senior management retreat for IOM and NIS officials organized by IOM titled …

THE sudden halt imposed on the aviation industry by the Covid-19 crisis hit the sector hard. In April 2020, two-thirds of the global commercial aviation fleet sat idle on the tarmac, while passenger traffic was down 90% year-on-year. Today, the aviation industry is slowly rebounding, led by domestic travel. As more aircraft return to the skies, a new report from …

Ground handling professionals past and present have waded in on what they describe as inappropriate pricing for services in Nigeria and have called for a review. According to them, Nigeria is the worst paid in the industry globally despite providing the best services with the best equipment. They have called for a review which they feel will enable ground handlers …

The release of the Aviation Development Roadmap by the Ministry of Aviation in reaction to the questions being asked about the project has opened the possibility for more questions especially on how feasible the national carrier is giving  the current administration has a year and eight months to go and with the competing demands in this COVID-19 era including security, …

Government cannot be thinking of concession of a part of commercial aviation and still want to keep another; again, you cannot be a regulator of the industry and still be sole operator; either it excised itself from the ventures or be minority shareholder of not more than 20%; foreign technical and financial investors 30%; credible Nigerian investors 30% and the balance of the 20% for the Nigerian public.

QUESTIONS are being asked about the Federal Executive Council’s (FEC’s) recent approval of the sum of N10bn for automation of five international airports in Nigeria; Lagos, Enugu, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano as some industry players cannot help but wonder why money is being approved for terminals earmarked for concession. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika who got the FECs …

FOR some weeks now, air fares have soared to unprecedented heights and have become a cause for worry especially with the security situation on the roads. Last week’s revelation that some airlines charged as high as N120, 000 for a one way trip from Abuja to Lagos has started generating questions over the reasons why ticket prices would skyrocket just …

The argument in defense of the refusal to  inaugurate a Board  from some stakeholders have always been that it was done in the past and was not a new thing but truth be told; that is the most lame excuse for the current state of illegality anyone can come up with, and at some point, said illegality should be eschewed and not turned into the norm.

Some airlines still unable to access funds suspect being targets FOLLOWING complains that airlines are yet to get any disbursement from the N5bn aviation palliative shared from the N27bn disbursed to the industry by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  more questions are being asked of why the secrecy of the fund disbursement and why the national carrier has become …

The reason it has become pertinent to ask questions now is due to past events and monies that have come to the sector meant for development but has ended up missing or in someone’s account and are still issues of relevance till today.Case in point, the missing N6.5 billion from the N19.5 billion and others monies that have gone unaccounted for in the industry in times past.