The Management of Quits Aviation has spoken on tampering with the aircraft of Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke. The company denied claims that it tampered with the engine of the Bombardier Challenger 605 aircraft, belonging to Deji Adeleke, the elder brother of the governor. In a statement on Tuesday, the management said no one could tamper with the engine of Read More
Leading groundling firm Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahcoaviance) subsidiary, NAHCO Aviation Academy has been accredited as an Approved Training Organisation (ATO) by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). The accreditation follows a rigorous and painstaking process conducted by the regulatory body. A letter addressed to the Head of the Academy by the NCAA declared that having met all the Read More
Five unions in the aviation industry have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to halt the hitherto 40 per cent deductions from the financial accruals of the aviation agencies as prescribed by the Finance Act 2022. The workers bodies said their demands are premised on the need to ensure the agencies are financially buoyant to carry out their statutory responsibility Read More
The Chief Operating Officer, Air Peace, Toyin Olajide, has branded the former minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika as a ‘liar’. Olajide alleged that the former minister lied about some of the claims he made on Air Peace during his Sunday interview on Arise Television. The former minister, had stated that Air Peace leased ‘two’ Boeing 777 aircraft on a monthly Read More
Transportation Minister, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, stirs controversy with last-minute attempt to terminate the boat monitoring contract procurement process in Nigeria’s four pilotage districts, which commenced in 2019, The Cable has reported. The pilotage districts of Lagos, Warri, Bonny/Port-Harcourt, and Calabar. The Cable had reported how the minister pressured the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), ministry of justice and the presidency Read More
The Director-General/CEO Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and Permanent Representative of Nigeria with World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Professor Mansur Bako Matazu has raised alarm that there is a brain drain of Pilots in Africa. Matazu on Wednesday expressed dismay during a paper presentation on Mitigating the impact of Brain drain in the Aviation Industry in Nigeria at the 2nd edition of Read More
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika will lead other dignitaries including Oil magnate and Group Chairman/CEO International Energy Services Limited Dr Diran Fawibe for the launch of the book “Aviation: Unsung Heroes and Heroines,” a chronicle of aviation events in the country since inception, with records of Nigerians that have made progress Read More
Experts and stakeholders in the aviation industry within and outside Nigeria have arrived Lagos for the 26th edition of the annual conference of League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) taking place in Ikeja today Thursday. The 2022 edition with the theme: ‘Sunset Airports: Economic & Safety Implications.’ will see discussions centre on solutions to the multiple challenges faced by Read More
In solidarity with sister union, the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), has called on the Federal Government to end the lingering strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) or they will shut down the Aviation sector. In a statement by its general secretary, Comrade Abdulrasaq Saidu, on Monday, the group called on President Mohammadu Buhari Read More
The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika will lead discussions as the Aeronautical Information Management Association of Nigeria(AIMAN) is set to x-ray the significance of the quality management system in aeronautical information dissemination in the aviation sector. The President of AIMAN, Sir William George Ngerem, in a statement said, the benefits of a quality management system include meeting the customer’s Read More
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Uba Sani, has declared that the 9th Senate is not happy that certain agencies of government are working at cross-purposes. This, he said, is not in the overall interest of the Nigerian economy.Speaking on Wednesday at the Zuma Rock Resort in Niger state, Sani said the upper chamber Read More
The official commissioning of Anambra Cargo Airport slated for Saturday October 30, 2021 has been cancelled. It is gathered that the stoppage of the event, was ordered by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), on the advice of the National Security Adviser (NSA), who raised security concerns of such an event at this moment. But stakeholders are taking divergent views Read More
Operator of the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, MMA2, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd, has advised travellers to adequately plan their movements well ahead of time to avoid missing their flight. The advice is coming on the heels of the current traffic situation around the Lagos airport, and by extension within the Lagos metropolis. Notably, traffic situation in Read More
The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria in Kaduna state has certified and licensed 52 aircraft maintenance engineers having completed their 120 weeks training programme in Standard Airframe and Power plant Course 31, 32 and 33, respectively. Declaring the young engineers qualified at their combined graduation ceremony held at the college on Friday, the rector, Capt. Alkali Mahmud Modibbo, said “the power confirmed by Read More
The Senate through its Committee on Public Accounts has threatened to issue warrant of arrest on the Managing Director of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Rabiu Yadudu, over alleged failure to remit N1.5 billion Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMeT) Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for the past six years. Chairman of the committee, Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP Edo South), issued the Read More
The Convener, Enjoy Nigeria EXPO 2021, Isa Yusuf Sago, has expressed concern that Nigeria’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs have not been given enough platform to showcase their products both locally and internationally. He said there was urgent need to bridge the existing gap. He noted this in Abuja during a courtesy visit by the Ministerial Committee on Read More
Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, has advocated the use of artificial intelligence in protection of critical infrastructures across the country. Pantami, who was speaking Tuesday in Abuja, at the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) stakeholders summit on the protection of critical infrastructure in Nigeria, stressed the need for more awareness, Read More
The Accident Investigative Bureau (AIB) has submitted the interim report on Nigerian Air Force (NAF) King Air -350 aircraft that crashed at Kaduna Airport on 21 May 2021, to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao. Blueprint reports that former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. – Gen Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other military personnel died in Read More
A group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the aiges of APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APC-LAC) has commended the firm responses of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administratiom to the Covid-19 pandemic. The group, which is a voluntary think-tank group of the governing party, particularly lauded President Buhari’s setting up of an Economic Sustainability Committee chaired by the Vice Read More
Initial fears that the Airbus A380 aircraft might gradually be eased out of operations following the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on global aviation appears to be a ruse with plans by Emirates to receive three more A380 aircraft from Airbus this year on the horizon. The airline announced that its last unit on order scheduled to join its Read More
Igbinedion University Okada (IUO) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Ireland based Newcastle Aerodrome for the training of private and commercial pilots alongside other workers in the aviation value chain in Nigeria. The Oskar Ibru Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre donated by business mogul, Olorogun Oskar Ibru to the institution is among the world-class facilities identified for Read More
Former Aviation Minister and Former FRSC Corps Marshal, Chief Osita Chidoka, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to publish reviews on sacked ministers and the security sector . President Buhari Wednesday sacked the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono and his counterpart in power ministry, Saleh Mamman, to reinvigorate his cabinet and consolidate his achievements. Chidoka who also doubles as the founder Read More
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operators of the Terminal has returned a bag containing the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) in two bundles, the sum of five hundred thousand naira (#500,000.00) in five bundles and other valuables found at the Airside of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos Terminal Two (MMA2). Other items found in the bag was nine wristwatches in Read More
Report reaching Blueprint has revealed that bandits, Friday morning, stormed Zangon Shanu village in Sabon Gari local government area of Kaduna state and kidnapped six people. The location is behind Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria. A resident in the area Mallam Musa Garbai told Blueprint that the bandits stormed the area around 1.30am on Friday and kidnapped their victims that Read More
Former Minister of Aviation in the administation of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and a serving Senator, Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, known as Stella Oduah, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). She was received at a brief ceremony in Abuja Thursday and admitted into the party by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Read More
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