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AIR Transport Specialist and managing director Avialog Company Limited, Mr. Richard Aisuebeogun has said that the high mortality rate of airlines in Nigeria are due to a variation of factors including unstable forex, jet fuel, spare parts, insurance, mismanagement and corruption among others. He also proffered some solutions to some of these challenges ranging from infrastructure upgrade to implementation of …

MANAGING director of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu has reemphasized that safety is what provides confidence for people to use aviation services stressing that without safety at almost 100% there will be no confidence and thus no aviation. The FAAN boss made this known against the backdrop of the upcoming safety week scheduled to kick …

NCAA DG explains the environmental impact to airport facilities MANAGING Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu has commended the Lagos State government for its quick intervention to help the agency resolve the issue of drainage from three local governments flowing into the Murtala Muhammed Airport to wreak havoc on the environment. This is …

DIRECTOR General, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu has  said the regulatory agency is not aware of anything unsafe about the Port Harcourt International Airport Omagwa Runway but that it will  carry out an investigation just to make sure. Nuhu made this known while reacting to concerns raised by some stakeholders at a recent conference in Abuja that …

We regret  the inconveniences that happened along the way, never intended but when you have a partner and one party decided to cause disruption when there is only one or two people in the world that can do it then naturally disruptions are inevitable but it’s not intended and the payment that we made to ensure that they don’t  disrupt are evidences.

  GOVERNOR of Sokoto State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal CFR has congratulated the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) for constructing an ultra-modern Office Complex for the Sokoto State Command. The Complex is located along Gusau Road in the State Capital. This is just as the Sokoto State Command Complex becomes the twelfth to be commissioned since the appointment …

UNIONS in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have written to the agency’s management giving it various deadlines to resolve the delays in remittances of outstanding staff pension contribution, co-operation deductions, gratuity and a host of others or risk further action. The unions: National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), …

MANAGING Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu has insisted that the prevalent culture of extortion in the nation’s airports needs to end to create a level playing field and improve airports service quality. This is just as he has said that equipment to facilitate seamless movement at the nation’s airports are being installed but admitted …

AIR Transport Specialist and managing director Avialog Company Limited, Mr. Richard Aisuebeogun has said that viability of airports in Nigeria is a function of the viability of airlines as both are inter-dependent in an ecology that allows symbiosis among them for their survival. Aisuebeogun in his presentation titled: Viability of Airport in Nigeria– why airlines fail at the CHINET Aviation …

CHAIRMAN Boff and Company, Insurance Brokers Limited, Babajide Olatunde-Agbeja has deprecated the lack of Insurance practitioners with technical knowledge to underwrite aviation policies in Nigeria stating that the industry still depends on the international market to provide technical assistance to assess aviation risk before placement. This is just as he decried that there is no Air Traffic Controller’s Liability (ATCL) …