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Sunday, September 3rd, 2023
By Shola Adekola The erudite and learned activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has urged for the suspension of flight operations of Nigeria British Airways and Virgin Atlantic until such a time when Nigeria’s Air Peace is allowed to also fly on the Lagos-London route in accordance with the provisions of the Bilateral Air Services Agreement(BASA) signed […]
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Friday, August 4th, 2023
There was a mild drama on board an Air Peace flight following the theft of N1 million of a passenger by another passenger. In a statement on Wednesday, the Spokesperson for the airline, Stanley Olisa, said the incident took place on board the Abuja-PHC flight P47192 on July 27. Olisa said the suspect was arrested […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
By Donatus Anichukwueze The President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has renamed some federal airports after several notable Nigerians. This is according to a memo by the Federal Ministry of Aviation dated June 1, 2023, and signed by Mrs Joke Olatunji for the Director of Airport Operations. The statement made available to Channels Television on Monday […]
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Thursday, June 8th, 2023
By Enioluwa Adeniyi Nigerian musician, Rudeboy has taken to social media to express his thoughts on the controversy surrounding the cost of repainting and rebranding a Nigeria Air aircraft. It was recently reported that this process cost an estimated 139 billion Naira, a claim that has since been widely discussed. The issue arose after the […]
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Monday, April 3rd, 2023
Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, under fire for spending whooping N12bn on 10 firefighting trucks • $25 million each By Ogaga Ariemu Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika is under fire for spending a whopping sum of N12 billion to acquire 10 firefighting trucks in Nigeria Airports. Sirika disclosed on Sunday that he commissioned ten firefighting trucks […]
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American Politics, Aviation, Headlines
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023
Nigeria-bound passengers flay U.S. Customs, United Airlines over airport harassments By Wole Oyebade • ‘We Get Frisked For Currency, Chased With Sniffer Dogs, Detained Like Common Criminals’ • We Cannot Speak For Customs, Border Officers — Airline Nigerians travelling home from the United States (U.S.) have alleged instances of harassment against the U.S. Customs, and […]
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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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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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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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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 […]