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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 […]

Aviation

Nigeria Air receives operating license from NCAA

Nigeria’s proposed national carrier, Nigeria Air, has received an Air Transport License from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. The interim management of the country’s national carrier, led by Captain Dapo Olumide, a former Managing Director of the defunct Virgin Nigeria Airways, received the ATL licence at the NCAA headquarters in Abuja. Punch Metro reports that […]

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 […]

Buhari
Transportation

Avert airlines’ operations shutdown, Reps caucus tells Buhari

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to take immediate steps to avert an imminent shutdown of flight operations in Nigeria, warning that it will have grave consequences on the country’s national life. The caucus was reacting to the strike notice issued to the […]

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Ports and Airports

Airlines to suspend operations Monday, aviation fuel hits N700 per litre

Airline operators in the country, on Friday, declared that they would halt operations from Monday following the jump in the price of aviation fuel, popularly called JetA1, from N190/litre to N700/litre. In a letter to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, which was copied to the Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Musa Nuhu, the airlines […]