Aviation News

  AS usual without regard for security protocol or decorum, a custom officer and his entourage forcefully accessed Security Restricted Area (SRA) via gate 3, the Customs Area Comptroller for Hajj and Cargo Terminal threatening terror on Aviation Security Manning the gate.   This incident has become a sad trend at the nation’s airports with armed security imposing their will …

DIRECTOR General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu has given some insights as to why airlines are reducing fares stressing that they ( airlines) may be suffering over capacity and that these fares may not affect safety in any case.   He however said that the NCAA is on top of airlines’ economic regulations and …

DIRECTOR General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) , Captain Musa Nuhu has said that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) Continuous Monitoring Approach (CMA) which  will deal with implementation of the eight (8) critical element slated for the first quarter of 2022 is not same as Annexes 9 and 17  dealing with …

MANAGING Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN) Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu has said that non-aeronautic revenue has opened a vista for tremendous opportunity to grow with plans to increase the revenue to 30% by the end of the second quarter of 2022. This is as he said due to newer variants of the COVID-19, deliberate steps must be …

Says industrialization of sector will create more jobs, explains Magnus aircraft plans RECTOR, Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Captain Alkali Moddibo has revealed that the college has 20 serviceable aircraft at the college enough to meet its need at every-point and is will be  taking delivery of two Diamond aircraft – double and single engine in the first quarter …

  FOLLOWING numerous successful audits of the aviation industry, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has expressed it’s readiness to once again surmount the latest International Civil Aviation Organisation ( ICAO) safety audit and has called for all hands on deck to make this happen. Director General of the NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu who made this known while declaring open …

FOLLOWING the exit of Captain Fola Akinkuotu as Managing Director Nigerian Airspace Management Agency( NAMA), the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has also approved the appointment and redeployment of some Directors and key officers as special assistants in the Ministry, Sirika’s gale of appointments and redeployments and removals affected officers in the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA) Federal Airports …

MR. Mathew Lawrence Pwajok a former Director of Operations has been appointed as Director to oversee the Office of the Managing Director, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency ( NAMA) following what may be the end of the tenure of Captain Fola Akinkuotu whose tenure expired on January 7, 2021. Pwajok who retired from service in December was directed by a letter …

THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has arrested over 90 persons, apprehended at both the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, carrying out nefarious activities including but not limited to touting.   These persons were arrested for various acts of illegality including Fake Covid-19 test results, unauthorised entry, trespass, illegal facilitation, forgery, loitering, theft, public …

PRESIDENT, Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative ( ASRTI), Dr. Gabriel Olowo has said the entry or exit of a national carrier is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things so long as the nation can produce strong, efficient, globally competitive flag carriers. This is just as he has said Nigeria has pitched its tent with Air Peace as a carrier, …