African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has estimated that the passengers carried by African airlines reached 85 million representing 89 percent of the pre-covid 2019 level in 2023. The AFRAA Secretary General Adulrahmane Berthe dropped this hint while speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the just concluded African Aviation MRO Conference wit...
•Boat mishap The Nigerian Navy, said it personnel deployed along Cawthorne Channel in Rivers State, has rescued over 250 passengers who were onboard a capsized passenger boat. Director Naval Information, Commodore Adams Aliu, who made this known, said The ill-fated boat, MV PRECIOUS EMMANUEL cast off from a local market in Sangana area of Baye...
•Bandits In a courageous act, the family of a bride-to-be and a group of passengers thwarted a kidnapping attempt by killing a terrorist in Zamfara State. The incident unfolded when the family of the bride-to-be and other travellers were ambushed by bandits along the Talata Mafara-Gusau highway, reports PRNigeria. The bride’s family had embark...
•FRSC officers at a scene of accident Road accident claimed over 25 lives in a ghastly accident at Aloma in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi, today. Our correspondent reliably gathered that the accident occurred on this morning between a fully loaded Siena bus with Toyota bus and articulated vehicle, reports Sunday Tribune. According to [&hel...
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 […]
•Allen Onyema Nigerian airlines lose an estimated N15 billion annually to bad behaviours of passengers, which avoidably lead to flight delays. Dr. Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace, stated this to aviation correspondents yesterday in Lagos, reports Daily Independent. Onyema lamented that poor passenger behaviours constitute the major cau...
•Gunmen Kidnappers of 14 travellers in two buses from Umuahia, Abia State, to Abuja, who were abducted at Inele Eteke, in Olalamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State, have called a husband of one of their victims, demanding a ransom of N15 million to free her. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday, […]
There is an uneasy calm at a section of the Oshodi Terminal Interchange (OTI) occupied by long-distance luxury bus transporters. This followed a hike in the service charge collected from passengers by the management of the facility, reports The Guardian. The charge was hiked from N600 to N2,000 per passenger on a single trip, representing [&he...
•Gunmen Travellers in two buses have been abducted in Inele-Eteke Ogugu new road in Kogi East Senatorial district of Kogi State. The passengers were believed to be on their way from Umahia, in Abia State to Abuja, before they were waylaid in Kogi State, reports Daily Independent. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred over [&hel...
•Boat mishap Passengers were feared dead in a boat mishap along Duga Mashaya in Niger State and Wara in Kebbi State. Bargu Local Government Disaster Officer, Musa Saidu, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview yesterday, reports Channels TV. He said the incident was reported to have occurred at about 11am. The boat was said […]...