Aviation

An Abuja-bound Medview Airlines’ Boeing aircraft with scores of passengers on board yesterday morning made an air return to the Murtala Muhammed Airport , Ikeja, Lagos, as the aircraft developed pressurisation problem about 8,000 feet […]

Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier, is rewarding passengers with surprise gifts mid-flight in what the company calls the #ArikCares Special Give-Away. Gifts to be given out include a number of iPad Air […]

When a former aviation minister, Stella Oduah, bought two bulletproof BMW cars for the humongous amount of N255m (then about $1.6m; now over $2m), we all cried foul in the press. It was not the […]

Technical or mechanical failure The airline – although not the investigators – has ruled out technical failure or human error and said the plane was in excellent condition. The crew did not send a distress […]

CONSTANTLY living in denial, Nigeria’s aviation authorities have stridently debunked a new report that ranked the country’s leading airports as being among the worst in Africa. In its 2015 survey, Guide to Sleeping in Airports, […]

THE House of Representatives has decried the state and  status of the nation’s airports. The lawmakers regretted that there was little to show for the huge investment made into the aviation sector by the Federal […]

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, queried the N63.5 billion approved for the construction of the second Runway for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, saying it was an attempt to ‘steal and rape’ Nigerians of the country’s […]

LAGOS—The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has denied allegations that the country is closing its airspace to flight operations with effect from Sunday midnight. Denying the allegation, the Acting General Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, Mr. […]

LAGOS—Two planes belonging to Arik Air, yesterday, brushed each other while manoeuvring out of the apron at the General Aviation Terminal, GAT, of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The two planes had their wing tips damaged and […]

Hundreds of passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos following the strike embarked upon by the limousine operators and car hires over the re-routing of the former by the Federal Airports Authority […]

A double propeller ATR 42 aircraft operated and owned by Overland airways did the unthinkable, leak water on passengers as it was raining. The aircraft  plying Abuja-Ilorin and Ilorin -Lagos routes is 23 years old. […]

A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet returning from a mission to its base in Yola, capital of northeast Adamawa state, crashed Saturday due to bad weather, killing its pilot, the Air Force said in an […]

Arik Air strongly condemns reports published recently by a site alleging that the airline is in financial trouble and may be going bankrupt.   This false and malicious publication is the handiwork of fly-by-night social media […]

When commercial air travel took off (excuse the pun) in the 1950s and 60s, it was considered the height of luxury and sophistication. Passengers dressed up smartly for flights – shirts, ties and suits for […]

Charter airlines operating in Nigeria have been losing at least half a billion naira monthly since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power and started his anti-corruption crusade, findings by Saturday PUNCH have shown. In the […]

With a landmass of over 30 million square kilometers, and over 1 billion people, sadly, the African continent still falls short in the global air service market, with less than 1 percent share. According to […]

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, yesterday grounded two foreign registered aircraft, a Bombardier 700-100, marked G-RBEN Global express S/N 9083 and an Embraer 135 J with Registration No, XA-MHA, for operating in the country’s […]

In spite of the notoriety and lack of character often exhibited by a few of our governors, it is still hard to believe that some would divert part of the bailout meant for clearing arrears […]