Tag: FAAN

FG relocates FAAN headquarters from Abuja to Lagos
Aviation

FAAN serves airport illegal occupant vacate order

All unauthorized inhabitants of airport grounds have been warned by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to leave the area for their own safety and security. The operations of Lagos State’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the General Manager of Corporate Affairs Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, are at risk due to […]

NASS committee orders Sirika to halt demolition of aviation offices
Aviation

NASS committee orders Sirika to halt demolition of aviation offices

The Joint Committee on Aviation of the National Assembly issued a directive to Senator Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, on Wednesday, ordering him to halt the planned demolition of the aviation agencies’ offices in Lagos. The clerk of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Franca Mbah, and her House of Representatives counterpart, Bassey Edem, both signed a letter addressed to […]

Airport security makes five arrests daily - FAAN
Business

Easter: FAAN denies marketers access to fuel aeroplanes, says report

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria is reportedly denying access to aviation fuel marketers at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja which may likely cause a disruption in some Nigerian’s Easter plans. This follows the lingering aircraft delays owing to the scarcity of aviation fuel called A1 fuel. The Punch reported on Thursday gathered the information […]

FAAN shuts Lagos airport runway for eight weeks
Aviation

  Kazeem Owoseni   The Federal Airport Authority has announced to the general public that runway 18R/36L of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, has been closed. This was contained in a notification twitted on the organisation’s verified Twitter handle, this morning. According to the notice, the runway was closed, to carry out some […]

Aviation

FAAN reopens Lagos airport runway

The domestic runway (18L/36R) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos was reopened on Thursday for flight services, four months after it was closed down by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria.   The runway was earlier closed to enable the installation of navigational facilities.   A Notice-To-Airmen from the Aeronautical Information Services of the […]

Airport security makes five arrests daily - FAAN
Aviation

Airport security makes five arrests daily – FAAN

Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Captain Rabiu Yadudu, said five persons are arrested daily at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos for infiltrating security. According to Vanguard, Yadudu made the assertion when he spoke during the ongoing works at Runway 18L, reacting to questions bordering on the recent stowaway and other security […]

Flights to South-South most expensive - NBS
Aviation

Pilots reject Lagos airport runway closure

Some Nigerian pilots have kicked against the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria’s planned closure of the domestic runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. AMBusiness quoting FAAN reported on Wednesday that the domestic runway 18L/36R will be completely shut for three months to enable some repairs and installation of Air Field Lighting to be […]

Flights to South-South most expensive - NBS
Aviation

Lagos airport runway to be shut for three months

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria confirmed that the domestic runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos will be completely closed for three months. This is to enable some repairs and installation of Air Field Lighting to be done, FAAN said in a statement on Wednesday titled, Airfield lighting installation: FAAN to close domestic runway […]

Aviation

Passengers panic as Overland aircraft’s engine catches fire midair

A four-member flight crew of Overland Airways made a successful landing of a distressed aircraft on the Runway 18R of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday evening, after the plane’s engine caught fire mid-air. The ATR 42 aircraft, which has 37 passengers on board, was en-route Ilorin-Lagos when the plane suddenly developed a […]

Airport security makes five arrests daily - FAAN
Aviation

FAAN commences replacement of old equipment at airports

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria said it has begun the replacement and repair of old equipment used to carry out its daily operations at airports across the country. The Managing Director, FAAN, Capt. Rabiu Yadudu, made this known at an interactive session with the League and Airports Aviation Correspondents in Lagos on Wednesday. Yadudu […]

Aviation

Grounded multimillion-dollar plane sold as scrap, towed to Oyo

An Airbus A320 jet belonging to First Nation has been sold as scrap to a yet-to-be-identified buyer, findings have shown. The development came about four years after the carrier grounded its operations for technical reasons. The buyer of the disused plane has consequently towed the equipment to a town in Oyo where it will be […]