The preferred bidder for shares in the new Nigerian airline Nigeria Air is a consortium led by Ethiopian Airlines, the nation’s aviation minister announced on Friday. One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign pledges in the 2015 election was the airline. The new airline will be 49% owned by Ethiopian Airlines, 46% by the Nigerian Sovereign Fund, […]
No doubt Nigerians tend to forget the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in a hurry for broken promises for drawing some sections of the aviation industry into a frenzy. It is certain that during the 2015 elections that paved way for Buhari to power, there were several assurances the team made in order to re-invigorate the aviation […]
By 31st December 2021, the aviation sector will click 100 years in Nigeria, with Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport as the oldest in Nigeria when the first aircraft landed in Kano same year as it was launched – 1922, but the full operations started 14 years later in the country. In the first decades of […]
In a move to strengthen harmony between the aviation trade unions, the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, in a statement signed by the ministry’s director of public affairs, James Odaudu, has promised to continue to support the involvement of union leaders and workers in policy and decision-making processes. The minister made the pledge at […]
The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has received the first batch of three training aircraft for the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria. Sirika, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle (@handisirika) on Sunday, adding that there was no better aviation safety than having well trained, proficient aviators. According to him, training will […]