Aviation sector

HADI Sirika, Nigeria's Aviation Minister has revealed that arrival time for  domestic air travelers to the airport has been...

By Simon Kolawole ANYTIME Senator Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, spoke about setting up a “national carrier”, I...

HADI Sirika, Minister of State for Aviation, has unveiled the name and logo of the Nigeria's new national carrier,...

“The huge monthly salary associated with a bloated workforce will eventually kill the airline, which is not the intention of the current government," spokesman of the airline, Simon Tumba said in a statement.

The Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, has lamented the deplorable state of navigational aids at airports across the country, saying the situation was to blame for the many cases of cancelled flights due to poor visibility caused by the Harmattan haze.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has asked Arik Airline to pay a fine of N6m for the delay and inability to ferry its passengers’ luggage from London to Lagos on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of December, 2016.

The federal government has set in motion plans to create a new national carrier with the appointment of a transaction adviser expected next week.

Figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics reveal that the aviation sector has recorded a 9% decline in terms of Airport traffic in the second quarter of 2016.

Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has disclosed that about N1 trillion will be need in order to revive Nigeria’s ailing aviation sector.

FirstNation Airways has resumed flight operations in Nigeria on Sunday evening, one month after it suspended flights to enable the aircraft fleet undergo engine maintenance.