AVIATION

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said that the runway and terminal building of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja will be ready today (Monday). FAAN said the airport will be ready two days before the April 19 scheduled date announced by the Federal Government for the reopening...

The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has said that the repair work at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, is now 96 per cent completed. Sirika gave this assessment when he visited the site on Tuesday, one week ahead of the proposed reopening of the airport....

A Nigerian pilot has become the first African to fly solo across the world, Nigeria’s privately owned daily newspaper, The Punch, reports . Ademilola “Lola” Odujinrin, 38, a Boeing 737 pilot with Air Djibouti, spent just over eight months to complete the historic feat, flying a single-engine light aircraft across...

No fewer than 16,000 passengers have been transported through the Kaduna International Airport (KIA) between March 8 and March 12, the first five days of its operation as an international airport. Mr Ibrahim Bwala, Head, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said the figure was recorded within the...

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has said that the pilot of the Dana plane crash that killed 153 passengers and crew in a Lagos suburb of Iju-Ishaga about five years ago, an American, Captain Peter Waxton, was responsible for the crash. The final report released on Monday of the accident...

The Managing Director of Med-View Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, has said that by April this year, the airline would expand its operations to Francophone countries within the West African states. Also, in the next three months, the airline would be hitting the market with an initial public offering (IPO) to...

Nigeria plans to establish an aviation university to promote research, development and production of high level manpower. Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, revealed the plan on Saturday after a familiarisation tour of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) in Zaria, Kaduna State. “The aviation university will be different from NCAT;...

The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) on Wednesday decried the deplorable state of Navigational Aids at airports around the country. The Chairman of AON, Capt. Nogie Meggisson said in Lagos that the situation had made flying in the Nigerian airspace difficult during the harmattan, thereby leading to flight cancellations. According...

Nigeria's largest airline Arik Air plans to nearly double its fleet to 52 planes within 10 years and has already ordered some of them from Boeing (BA.N), a source at the company told Reuters on Monday. Most of the carrier's existing fleet are Boeing planes and the source, who did...

Air traffic controllers have declared a state of emergency on the communication facilities at the nation’s airports “in view of their epileptic conditions and the danger posed to air travel.’’ “We are heavily disturbed by the deplorable state of the communication facilities; in view of their relevance to airspace travel,...