Tag Archives: Nigerian aviation and COVID-19

NATIONAL Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has petitioned the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over how government can assist the country’s aviation sector during this COVID-19 era warning against monetary intervention that yielded no results in the past. The union in a petition signed by Comrade Ocheme Aba, the General Secretary, NUATE, said that government’s intervention whatever …

NIGERIAN Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) has said that it and other ground handlers cannot add the burden of a 100% waiver of  demurrage demanded by customs agents based on grounds that a government agency has done so especially giving the extra costs it has had to endure in 6 weeks of lock down and closure of airports NAHCO while …

‘We did not get waivers and so can give none,’SAHCO insists ASSOCIATION of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos Chapter has called on Chairman Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 to wade into the current imbroglio between it and managements of the handling companies at the airport over decision to charge them demurrage on cargo during the …

ONE hundred and sixty (160) Nigerians today were successfully evacuated from the United States of America landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja (NAIA). The aircraft departed for Abuja from Newark (EWR) Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Sunday 10th May 2020 by 9.15pm The aircraft, a 270 passenger capacity Boeing 787 flight Number ET 509 with Registration …

We are talking to our airlines on repatriation of 4000 Nigerians abroad- Onyeama SECRETARY to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha has announced the extension of ban on all flights into the country as well as domestic flights for an extra four weeks thereby extending the ban to June 4th, 2020 after initial lockdown on March 23. This …

FEDERAL Government through the Ministry of Budget and National Planning is has identified the aviation sub-sector as one of those slated the N2 trillion economic injection the nation is considering  as the sector loses almost N21 billion on a monthly basis since the Covid-19 pandemic. Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba disclosed at a webinar …

FEDERAL Government has announced that it would commence evacuation of no fewer than 4,000 Nigerians from about 75 countries around the globe beginning with 265  from the United Arab Emirates to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffery Onyeama who made this known  at the Presidential Task Force on …

MANAGING director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Capt. Fola Akinkuotu has tasked staff of the agency to ensure full compliance with the directives and safety guidelines by the Federal Government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on COVID-19 as the lock down is partially lifted. Capt. Akinkuotu who stated this in a message to staff of …

AIR Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) has in its 2020 May Day Solidarity message has threatened to confront what it described as the unilateral and arbitrary cutting of members’ salaries and declaration of unpaid leave. This is just as the union has enjoined its members to take strict compliance to the usage of the Personal Protective Equipments …

NATIONAL Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) is seeking federal government intervention to enable the airlines and the aviation agencies function, save jobs and pay salaries in its Worker’s Day message to members. NAAPE President, Galadima Abednego in a statement released by his Public Relations Officer, Frank Igwe noted with dismay the impact of the COVID-19 virus in the …