The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), on Saturday, said the agency will embark on a fact-finding mission to the Philippines to engage the school where its Cadets of the National Seafarers Development Program (NSDP) are studying, over their ...
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The Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (MC Oluomo), has announced the introduction of the Bar Code to checkmate untoward activities among some commercial bus drivers. According to him, the initiative will curb kidnapping and other ...
Read More »Nigerians Don’t Want Water Bill, Afenifere Tells FG
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has described the insistence of the Federal Government to pass the repeatedly rejected Waterways Resources Bill into law as another instance of how the government is often hell-bent on going ahead with what the majority ...
Read More »AKS Automobile Factory Commences Recruitment
…Shortlists 20 Indigenous Staff For Trainings In Israeli The process has commenced for the emergence of twenty indigenous automobile engineers who would be trained in Israel to constitute the first batch of staff members employed in the MIMSHAC car assembly ...
Read More »NCAA Threatens To Ground Airlines Over N19bn, $7.6m Debts
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has accused the Nigerian local airlines of deliberate attempt to cripple its operations. NCAA said the local airlines are owing it over N19 billion and $7.6 million on ticket charges they have collected from ...
Read More »Aviation Crisis: Airlines Cut Workforce, Dana Mulls Resumption
Domestic airlines have continued to cut down on their workforce as the crisis in Nigeria’s aviation industry lingers, it was learnt on Monday. It was also gathered that though plans were on the way to re-engage some of the disengaged ...
Read More »How To Make Nigerian Ports Competitive
In this piece, ANOZIE EGOLE looks at several challenges bedeviling the Nigerian maritime industry and how to fix them to attract more patronage. Before the idea of port concession was conceived precisely in 2006, many stakeholders and players believed that ...
Read More »African Airlines Record 103.6% Rise In Passenger Traffic
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday released its passenger data for June 2022 showing a strong recovery in air travel across all regions. The association, representing 290 airlines, however, noted that it has returned to year-on-year traffic comparisons, instead ...
Read More »Aviation Fuel Hike: Wealthy Nigerians Smuggling Jet-A1 to W’Africa – Senate Panel
The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District and the Chairman of the Senate Aviation Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi, has said that wealthy Nigerians stealing and exporting the Jet –A-1 are responsible for the scarcity of aviation fuel in the country. ...
Read More »Airlines Dump Low Demand Routes As Jet A1 Nears N900/Litre
…Reject closure of Lagos airport runway Airline passengers on less viable routes such as Sokoto, Katsina, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Gombe, Yola, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Ilorin, Jos, Ibadan, Calabar and Akure, may find it difficult connecting their destinations by air as operators are ...
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