Senator Hadi Sirika, the Honourable Minister of State, Aviation has unfolded the vision and strategies of the President Mohammad Buhari administration for achieving a quantum leap forward for the Nigerian Aviation industry. First, he made it clear that Aviation” is pivotal to the growth of key economic sectors, certainly not limited to travel and tourism. Agriculture production and distribution, rural …
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‘No Captain Ojikutu! You cannot condemn African airlines like that!!’
I do respect the person and achievements of Capt. Ojikutu but I have to respond to this before we accept his sentiments as facts. The reason I have chosen to react to this is because of my position as team Leader for TeamAfrica. The TeamAfrica is a group of Africans in Travel Business from about 20 countries trying to promote …
Read More »Of Arik, Bi-Courtney and FAAN: What truly lies beneath
Recent invectives by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) about any issue concerning the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) over debts and everything else leaves a lot of questions in the lips of onlookers like myself who have watched with keen interest, a lot of drama unfold between all parties. The crux is who owes what? And who own what? …
Read More »Domestic airlines’ recurring debts and the way out of the impasse
The indebtedness of the Nigeria Domestic Airlines grew up to the present level today because, most of the operators are sponsored by or are sponsors of political office holders in government. With the ‘attitude of we own the government’ most of these operators had no intention of paying for the services rendered to them by the government services providers, despite …
Read More »Comptroller General Customs must call officers at MMIA to order!!
The attack last week by an officer with the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), attached to the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) identified as H. Daboh, on a staff of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Taiwo Adeyanju Palace Gate of the Cargo Terminal and the reaction of the security agency leaves little to be desired and a lot to …
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