The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria FAAN and Nigeria Airforce Monday signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to resume civil flight operations in Makurdi.The civil flight operations route according to FAAN will be from Makurdi to Abuja to Lagos and Lagos to Abuja to Makurdi. Director of legal, FAAN, Clifford Omozeghian, said the Civil aviation operations by the Airport Authority Read More
The official commissioning of Anambra Cargo Airport slated for Saturday October 30, 2021 has been cancelled. It is gathered that the stoppage of the event, was ordered by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), on the advice of the National Security Adviser (NSA), who raised security concerns of such an event at this moment. But stakeholders are taking divergent views Read More
Controversies continue to bug the proposed NG Eagle airline expected to be launch by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) soon as the aviation workers under the umbrella of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) Wednesday called on the Presidency to wade into the frictions that currently bedeviled the issuance of the Air Operators Certificate to the Read More
Members of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners NUP, FAAN branch, Tuesday morning barricaded the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria following what they said is the inability of the management to pay them their Consequential Pension Adjustment CPA. The general secretary of NUP FAAN branch, Comrade Emeka Njoku said the issue has been a prolong one between FAAN Read More
The Senate through its Committee on Public Accounts has threatened to issue warrant of arrest on the Managing Director of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Rabiu Yadudu, over alleged failure to remit N1.5 billion Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMeT) Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for the past six years. Chairman of the committee, Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP Edo South), issued the Read More
The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria(FAAN), Capt. Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu has disclosed strategic plans and implementation of federal government directives to ensure the aim at boosting the air cargo business sub sector of the Nigerian aviation industry. Whilst he identified impediments like infrastructure decay, multiple government agencies conducting the same checks and oversights at airports among Read More
A former flight captain with Allied Airlines, Captain Wale Otubanjo has said most pilots often avoid flying into Port Harcourt at night, describing the runway as a dark hole approach, as there were a lot of trees surrounding it without adequate lighting, which makes it difficult to fly into the airport. He stated this in Abuja at the just concluded Read More
Passengers travelling out of Nigeria through the international wings of the Lagos and Abuja airports are poised to experience reliefs with the installation of passengers check-in equipment by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at the two terminals. The equipment had hitherto experienced technical glitches when the contract of Societe International Telecommunication Aeronautiques (SITA), the company that has hitherto Read More
For the umpteenth time, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has reiterated it will not allow protocol officers and orderlies into terminals of airport buildings just as the facilities are witnessing a surge in passenger traffic as Nigerians head home to celebrate the Muslims Eid-El-Kabir Festival across the country. The country’s airports management Authority affirmed the decision is consequent Read More
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operators of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos Terminal Two (MMA2) in Ikeja, has described the allegation by the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, on Thursday that BASL owed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) the sum of N13 billion as “untrue,” saying it “does not owe the agency any amount at all.” Sirika, at Read More
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria hereby appeals to airlines, passengers and all other stakeholders at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to please bear with the Authority over it poor facilities at the airports across the country . General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu in a press statement issued in Abuja on Thursday said it facilitates are functioning below Read More
Managing organisations in the post-COVID-19 pandemic calls for ingenuity, especially for government agencies in Nigeria and around the world. But for the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Captain Rabiu Yadudu (rtd), system, processes and human resources he put in place helped to contain what would have been the biggest casualty globally. At the risk of Read More
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