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Aviation, Headlines
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Lagos diverted to Cotonou, Togo then Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, 200 passengers stranded By Prince Okafor • As Lufthansa diverts flight to Cotonou, Malabo A Lufthansa Flight LH566 from Frankfurt direct to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, was on Friday diverted to Cotonou, Togo and later Malabo, capital of […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
By Prince Okafor Air travellers from Nigeria to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE, will be forced to consider alternative means of transportation in the coming days. This came as Nigeria’s indigenous airline, Air Peace suspended flight operations to the country indefinitely. This is coming against the backdrop of non-issuance of visas by the UAE government […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
By Adekunle Dada The management of Air Peace has explained why its Lagos-Owerri bound flight with no P47154, which departed the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, made an air return on Wednesday. In a statement by the management of the airline, it said the emergency return was due to engine failure It explained that the […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Friday, September 16th, 2022
By Adekunle Dada A Nigerian student at the Florida Institute of Technology, Alfa Ekele, has lost his live at the Orlando Executive Airport after wind gusts of 60 mph, flipped a twin-engine plane he was on, earlier this month. The U.S. Aviation Administration confirmed Ekele and one person were inside the twin-engine Diamond DA42 Twin […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
By Prince Okafor Delta Airlines, United States’ longest serving flight operator in Nigeria, said it will from October 4, 2022, suspend flight operations between JFK airport, New York and Lagos. The airline which is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier, disclosed this in a statement made available to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Aviation, Headlines, NNP News
Monday, August 29th, 2022
(NNP) Two Ethiopian Airlines pilots have been suspended by the Airlines after they reportedly fell asleep and missed their landing destination at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. According to reports, the plane cruising at 37,000 feet, flew above the airport and continued rather than descending and landing. The control tower at Bole airport made several […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Saturday, August 27th, 2022
By Wole Oyebade No fewer than five international carriers have completed plans to relocate Lagos operations into the new terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, to end months of under-utilisation of the $100 million facility. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) raised the optimism as it also assured that the […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Emirates Airlines on Thursday announced the suspension of its flight operations in Nigeria from September 1, 2022. It said the suspension became necessary following its inability to repatriate its funds from Nigeria. International carriers operating in Nigeria have repeatedly complained about their inability to repatriate funds to their home countries. They have raised this concern […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
4 Nigerian airports viable, others should be shopping malls – Stakeholder By Wale Odunsi An aviation investor, Bankole Bernard has declared that only four airports in Nigeria are viable. The stakeholder proffered that 18 others should be turned into shopping malls to generate revenue. For many years, the airports in the capital Abuja, Lagos, Port […]
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Aviation, Headlines, Nasarawa, State News
Friday, May 13th, 2022
Pilot of Cameroon plane crash identified as daughter of Ex-Nasarawa Dep Gov, Solomon Ewuga By Adekunle Dada The pilot of the plane that crashed in Central Cameroon has been identified as Adzuayi Ewuga, daughter of Senator Solomon Ewuga, former Nasarawa State Deputy Governor. WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that the mini aircraft belonging to Caverton Aviation […]
