Aviation

    By Tony Obiechina  The federal government has extended the ongoing verification exercise of Nigeria Airways Limited former workers and assured that the exercise will not end until everybody was captured. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, stated this on Wednesday during her on-the-spot assessment visit of …

The  turboprop aircraft belonging to Overland Airways was on Friday severely damaged by fire while parked at the airline’s hanger at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

    By Tony Obiechina  The Federal Government will on Monday,  October  15, flag off the final  verification and payment of entitlements to all former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways According to a statement  by Mr. Paul Ella Abechi,  the  new special adviser on Media and Communications to the …

A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of the runway at an airport in the tiny South Pacific nation of Micronesia on Friday, the Airport’s Manager said. “It was supposed to land but instead of …

The Nigeria Air Force has named the pilot killed in the two NAF jets that collided with each other mid air and crashed, on Friday as Sqn Ldr MB Baba-Ari. In its first reaction to incident Friday, NAF said there was no casualty. In an update on the air disaster  …

The Nigerian Air Force has confirmed an air accident involving two of its aircraft taking part in the rehearsals for the 58th Independence Day Celebrations.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Wednesday, announced the suspension of the planned national carrier, Nigeria Air. On his Twitter handle, @hadisirika, Sirika tweeted: I regret to announce that the Federal Executive Council has taken the tough decision to suspend the National Carrier Project in the interim. All …

Ethiopian Airlines Group and Lufthansa Systems have announced the introduction of Lufthansa’s Lido/Flight 4D solution in Ethiopian’s flight planning system.

The long-awaited Bayelsa State International Cargo Airport is ready, the Managing Director, Bayelsa Airlines, Capt. Henry Ungbuku, has said.

  Ethiopian Airlines does not plan to stop expanding its pan-African network of bases following its recent agreements with the governments of Chad and Zambia to launch flag carriers in those countries. It has now set its sights on Nigeria and Ghana, where it has bid to establish two more …