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Aviation, Headlines, Lagos, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
A plane carrying 20 people has crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos airport in Nigeria, officials say. A rescue operation is ongoing. At least 13 people are known to have died and several more of those on board were injured. The Associated Airlines plane was bound for Akure, which lies about 140 miles […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
The teenagers advertisement The Airport Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested three teenagers for allegedly attempting to illegally board some international flights in Lagos. Commissioner of Police for the command, Salahu Waheed, said the suspects, Lateef Popoola, 13; Amadi Joshua, 14; and Ukpabio Onyedikachi, 14, were arrested at […]
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Aviation, Latest Politics
Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah | credits: File copy Owners and operators of foreign-registered private jets in the country are not ready to de-register them to enable their planes become Nigeria-registered in line with the new National Civil Aviation Policy 2013 unveiled by the Federal Government in May, investigations by our correspondent have shown. […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Two weeks after his son flew from Benin City to Lagos in the wheel compartment of an aircraft belonging to Arik Air, Daniel Ohikhena’s father denies claims that he abandoned his family, writes JAMES AZANIA Little is known about Daniel Ohikhena, the 13-year-old stowaway who flew from Benin City to Lagos in the wheel compartment […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Monday, August 26th, 2013
THE teenage stowaway, Daniel Ihekina, who was arrested at the Lagos Airport after flying in the tyre hole of an Arik plane from Benin to Lagos on Saturday morning, thought he was on a US-bound flight. A source at the Benin Airport who disclosed this said the boy’s parents had already departed for Lagos in […]
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Aviation, Enugu, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Ethiopian Airlines has said it is set to commence four weekly flights to Nigerian cities including Enugu, the capital of Enugu State beginning from August 24. Mr Tewolde Gebremariam, the Ethiopian airline chief executive confirmed this to newsmen in Addis Ababa. It will be recalled that the airline in a statement last month announced plans […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Last Wednesday, I left Abuja city for the airport, to catch a scheduled 7pm Arik Air flight to Lagos. I got to the airport at 6pm, got my boarding pass, and waited for the boarding announcement. I expected we would depart sometime between 7pm and 8pm. At 7pm, an announcement came that our flight was […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Workers of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency on Sunday vowed to paralyse activities in the aviation sector, including flight operations, on Monday (today), after a meeting between their union leaders and NAMA management over salary dispute ended in a deadlock on Friday. The planned industrial action is coming on the heels of a 14-day ultimatum […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Indications emerged late on Wednesday that the summer flight schedule of the 24 foreign airlines operating into Nigeria might be approved before the end of this week. Our correspondent gathered that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Aviation had begun moves to fast-track the approval process following a story by The PUNCH on Wednesday […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
The labour crisis rocking Aerocontractors Airlines is far from over as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has restricted the embattled carrier to operating only three out of its nine operational aircraft. Aero has about 14 aircraft in its fleet but only nine are currently in operation. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that rather operating all […]
