•The protesting women Women from the Ipo community have blocked the entrance to the Port Harcourt airport. As early as 7:30 am today, the women from Ipo which is one of the host communities of the airport, blocked the gate at the airport roundabout, waving placards, singing, wailing, and even cooking at the gate, reports […]
•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has said the issue of extortion of passengers by officials of government agencies at the nation’s airports is beyond the ministry’s control. Keyamo, who stated this in a post on X yesterday, however said the aviation ministry was working with o...
•Tinubu The federal government has renamed the Minna Airport in Niger State after President Bola Tinubu. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Binta Mamman, who disclosed this yesterday during a media briefing at the Government House, Minna, said the airport will be inaugurated today by the president. The airport had earlier been named aft...
No fewer than 300 passengers of Delta Air Lines were today stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos over mechanical failure to the carrier’s aircraft. It was learnt that the passengers who were on their way to Atlanta Georgia, US, were already boarded for an afternoon flight out of Lagos, but were later […]
Power outage triggered by a fire outage at the E-Arrival Finger of the Lagos International Airport threw the old terminal into confusion today. Workers and passengers at the facility pulled out of the section where thick smoke was billowing to the larger departure hall. Though normal operations are going at the terminal, a team of […]
Three people were killed and nine injured after an under-construction hangar collapsed at the Boise Airport in Bosie, capital of Idaho, yesterday. The three died at the scene, and five of the nine injured are in critical condition, said the Boise Fire Department, reports AFP. The hangar, located on the airport property, was owned by […]
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed the runway excursion involving a Challenger CL 601 aircraft, operated by Mattini Airline Services Limited, with registration marks N580KR at Ibadan Airport on 26th January 2024 and has suspended the PNCF of Mattini Airline Services Limited with immediate effect. According to the regulat...
•Scene of the accident A fatal accident along Airport Road, Lugbe Abuja, has claimed the life of one and left the other injured yesterday evening. It was learnt that the accident happened along the outbound lane of the Umaru Musa Yaradua Expressway, commonly referred to as Airport Road, in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, reports [&...
Five months after unknown persons carted away some of the parts of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) of the international runway 18/36R of Murtala Muhammad Airport (MMA), Lagos, the suspects remain unidentified. This is happening despite an investiÂgative panel set up by the management of the Federal Airports Authority of NigeÂria (FAAN) to ...
•Nathan Lugo A tourist, Nathan Lugo, has shared his experience at Cotonou Cadjehoun International Airport in the Benin Republic, comparing it with the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Nigeria. In a recent post on his Facebook page, Lugo, an American Ifa devotee noted that the Cotonou airport is better than the Lagos airport airport. H...

