The federal government has stepped in to ease mounting pressure on Nigeria’s aviation sector. It approved a 30 per cent debt discount for domestic airlines while initiating urgent talks to stabilise the soaring price of Jet A1 aviation fuel, reports The Nation. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, announced the interv...
•Chairman/CEO United Airline Limited, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Airlines Limited, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, has said that air travel within Nigeria is one of the cheapest when compared with other countries globally. Okonkwo, who is also the Spokesperson for airline operators in Nigeria, made the submission...
•Oshiomhole The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has come out in support of Air Peace, describing the actions of Senator Adams Oshiomhole during a recent incident at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos as “unruly and unexpected of a politician of his class.” Oshiomhole was allegedly denied boarding on an Air Peace flight after arriving [&h...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has directed 11 airline operators to refund the sum of N3,451,076,527 to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) within 21 days. The resolution was contained in the report of the House Committee on Public Accounts chaired by Honourable Bamidele Salam on the ‘alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 i...
•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared that Dangote Refinery is now authorised to serve as the only provider of jet fuel, or Jet A1, to aircraft companies operating in the country. The minister of aviation, Festus Keyamo, disclosed this information in an interview that aired on Channels TV today. Accor...
Following the signing of the Cape Town Convention, CTC Practice Direction, Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, yesterday warned it would not solve all the problems plaguing Nigeria’s air transport sector. Vice President of AON, Dr Allen Onyema, said while signing of the CTC Practice Direction was a forward thinking approach, the country’s airpo...
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