To make it easy, cheaper and timely for Nigerian airlines to maintain their aircraft, the federal government plans to establish a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) in Abuja.It has also concluded plan to establish an Aviation Leasing Company (ALC), in order to enable Nigerian airlines lease aircraft at cheaper rate. Government said this was part […]

Four airports in Nigeria have been mapped out for the deployment of oil spill response units, the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency has said. Director-General, NOSDRA, Musa Idris, told journalists in Abuja that the four airports include those in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Calabar. Idris, who disclosed this while briefing the press

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Local carrier welcomes ERJ-145 jet Worried by the second wave of COVID-19 already forcing another lockdown in places like France and the United Kingdom, the Federal Government has disclosed stiffer sanctions, including a six months ban for evaders of the mandatory Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests. Read More

The national carrier RwandAir has announced it will continue operating flights to and from the United Kingdom even after the latter imposed a second nationwide lockdown that started Thursday, November 5. Read More