Appointments and Labour

NIGERIAN Immigration Service (NIS) has  announced the elevation of a total of total of Ninety-Eighty( 98) senior officers to new ranks following their successful performance in a promotion exercise conducted for senior Officers in December 2021. This is contained in a letter from the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board vide CDCFIB/NIS/2021/PE/640/VOL.1/1 and dated 20th May, 2022. According …

AIR Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria ( ATSSSAN) has concluded its branch elections at the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) with the Chairmanship and secretary positions returning unopposed. Due to the disqualification of both contestants, Comrade Aderemi Aderinkomi of Finance Directorate and Comrade Umahi Emeka Felix from Directorate of Air transport Regulations ( DATR) returned unopposed as Chairman …

  AFTER yesterday’s stalemate over the conduct of the Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria( ATSSSAN) Branch election at the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) the event has been shifted to this morning after securing the venue. This is however as there are still agitations over the disqualification of one Comrade Danjuma which still presents fear of disorderliness …

Finger clandestine forces out to self-sabotage airline NATIONAL Union of Air Transport Employees(NUATE) and the Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) have laid bare certain accusations with regards happenings in Aero Contractors and more recently Arik Air alleging a ploy to put the former (Aero) out of commission. This is just as the unions have accused the …

NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has granted approval to 7Star Global Hangar Limited to carry out 3C, CPCP, ADS and ADD on Dana airlines MD83 aircraft with the registration number, 5N-SAI   Just as the maintenance organisation has said the Dana Air deal will lead to the employment of thirty engineers and the employment of over 1,500 jobless licenced aircraft …

  PENSIONERS of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Tuesday barricaded the entrance to the agency’s regional headquarters in Ikeja over what they described as management’s inability to implement of Consequential salary /Pension Adjustment (CPA)   Displaying various placards, the pensioners have vowed to remain at the gate FAAN hindering movement   The FAAN management had promised to start …

ETHIOPIAN Airlines Group Board of Management has announced the appointment of Mr. Mesfin Tasew Bekele, as Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines Group, effective March 23, 2022. Mr Mesfin succeeds former CEO of the Airline group, Tewolde GebreMariam whose early retirement request due to health issues has been approved by the board. Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam has been under medical treatment …

MRS Faithful Avokerie Hope-Ivbaze has been appointed the Acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Hope-Ivbaze, takes over from Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, the immediate past General Manager, Corporate Affairs who retired from the agency last week after 35 years of service. Until her appointment as the Acting General Manager Corporate Affairs, Mrs Faithful Avokerie …

AVIATION unions have decried series of brutal acts meted out to aviation security personnel of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and other aviation workers by national security personnel serving at Nigerian airports, fingering officers of the Nigeria Customs as most guilty of this. This is just as the unions have warned that it would no longer tolerate any …

TODAY’S industrial action by aviation unions set to commence over implement the minimum wage/consequential adjustment and approve the reviewed Conditions of Service (CoS) has been suspended following an agreement reached with federal government. This is coming as it has been agreed that by March 31, the Ministry of Aviation must ensure the approval, release and implementation of the reviewed CoS …