In a bid to secure a safer airspace in West Africa, accident investigation officers across Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, are undergoing training in accident or incident investigation in the state safety programme. The training, which is currently ongoing ...
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Air Peace airline, yesterday, announced suspension of its Dubai operations indefinitely over inabilty of Nigerians to get visa to the country. In a press statement by Airpeace management and a copy made available to LEADERSHIP, the airline said their operation ...
Read More »Airport Concession: Mixed Reactions As Federal Government Picks Preferred Bidders For 3 Airports
Stakeholders have continued to express support and reservation with the planned airport concessioning in the Nigeria major airports. This followed Federal Ministry of Aviation announcement of the Corporacion America Airports Consortium as the preferred bidder for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International ...
Read More »Towards Performance-Based Navigation
The global civil aviation sector is evolving safer, more-efficient and environmentally-friendly measures to keep aircraft in the skies. To achieve this, global regulators: including International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Flight Safety International (FSI), and Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSPs), have ...
Read More »Blue Line Rail: Sensitising Against Electrocution
Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Lagos State Government, by first quarter 2023, will take modernised train inclusion (as an element of intermodal mass transit) notches higher, with the delivery of the Blue and Red Rail Lines. The Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration, at ...
Read More »Airpeace Set For Direct Flight To Israel
The chief executive officer of Airpeace, Allen Onyema, on Friday, stated that the airline is ready to kickstart direct flight from Nigeria to Isreal. Onyema, stated this against the backdrop of the comment of the executive secretary of the Nigerian ...
Read More »ValueJet Begins Inaugural Flight Operations In Nigeria
The management of Value Jet Airline has commenced maiden commercial local flight operations. The inaugural flights took off on Monday 10, October 2022 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Terminal 2, Ikeja, to Abuja, Port Harcourt, Asaba and Jos. ...
Read More »Navy Destroys Vessel Arrested By Tompolo’s Men
Operatives of the Nigerian Navy in Delta State on Monday destroyed an illegal oil bunkering vessel arrested with stolen crude oil aboard Niger Delta creeks. The PUNCH gathered that operatives of the newly-contracted private oil pipeline surveillance team, Tantita Security ...
Read More »Boat Accidents Claim 701 Lives In 34 Months
No fewer than 701 persons have lost their lives in 53 boat accidents in the country between January 2020 and October 2022, The PUNCH has learnt. The fatalities, which involved the passengers and the boat operators, were attributed to overloading, ...
Read More »Tompolo Intercepts Massive Vessel Loaded With Illegal Crude Oil In Delta
…Rejects N25m bribe The pipeline surveillance contract recently awarded to Tantita Security Services Limited by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to assist curb oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the country, appears to be yielding targeted results. Tantita ...
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