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NCAA, according to information received, has now approved between $1,500 and $5,000 (passenger and cargo flights) for handlers for a narrow and wide body aircraft, respectively, while for domestic operators will now pay between N20,000 and N70,000, depending on the aircraft type. Narrow body aircraft include Boeing B737, Airbus A320, ER 135 and ATR, while wide body aircraft are B767, A330, B777, B747 and B787.

"I want to say at this point the West African region as a whole is a large market for Africa and that is why an airline like Ethiopia set up a subsidiary called, ASKY to operate the region on a 5th Freedom Right. So you can see ASKY coming into Lagos, going to Accra, Lome which is actually their hub of operation and that is what we are losing, however the truth is this, i am not a against the operation of ASKY because that is what the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) is all about. However, west African countries should grant the same leverages rights and privileges to other airlines from the region so as to have and to allow for free enterprise and equal competitions in operations.

TOP management of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) yesterday, held a valedictory session in honour of the retiring Comptroller General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede...

MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola yesterday commissioned an ultra-modern Conference Centre for the Service at the headquarters, Abuja.   The Minister while commissioning the edifice,...

"Another proposition is that to date the francophone countries have to respect the BASA and the travel protocols that is established not just by ECOWAS but the AU to make passenger flight operations into their countries seamless by reducing charges.

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