Aviation

Bristow Africa Region has donated a “run-out” Robinson R-22 to the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria (NCAT), to be used as a ground platform for teaching “Basic Helicopter Maintenance and Engineering Training.

Following the fracas between some officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, on June 3, 2015, a high level meeting of officers of both organizations was recently convened in Abuja.

Nigeria’s most innovative and exciting online competition, MMA2KIARACE, had come and gone. But the memory will linger for a long time especially for the over 300 participants that won various prizes at the competition, particularly the 23- year-old, Miss Oluwagbemisola Scarlet Shotade, a 200 level student of Business Administration at the University of Lagos, who won the competition’s grand prize of a Kia Rio, at an impressive ceremony, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminal Two (MMA2), Lagos, last Saturday.

The economic realities of the time, coupled with high exchange rate of the naira are now making maintenance of aircraft from Nigeria increasingly difficult as the situation is biting hard on airline operators.

Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing airline in Africa is launching the much anticipated new service to Manila, in the Philippines from July 09, 2015.

The Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja Station has passed the International Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO), conducted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). This implies that SAHCOL, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja has now modeled its operations to the ISAGO standards, thereby making a commitment to…

IT has been revealed that technology that might have averted the German-wings tragedy by remotely seizing control of the plane has existed but has been ignored and resisted by the aviation industry globally.

AVERTON Offshore Support Group Plc (COSG), the leading provider of marine, aviation and logistics services to local and international oil and gas companies in Nigeria has named Mrs. Titilola Adigun as the new Chief Financial Officer with effect from July 1, 2015.

ACCIDENT Investigation Bureau (AIB) of Nigeria, on Wednesday released the ‘third and final Interim Statement’ on Dana Airlines air crash MD-83 with registration number 5N-RAM, which occurred at Iju- Ishaga area of Lagos State, Nigeria on June 3, 2012.

GRAND Finale of Nigeria’s largest and most exciting online competition: MMA2KIARace, comes up tomorrow by 12 noon, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminal two (MMA2), Lagos.

IN furtherance of the corporate social responsibility ideals, Caverton Offshore Support Group Plc (COSG) (Bloomberg: Caverton NL), the leading provider of marine, aviation and logistics services to local and international oil and gas companies in Nigeria, is partnering with the Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN) to help persons with sickle cell disorder (SCD) live normal lives.

ARIK Air, West Africa’s largest airline has been ranked as one of the top ten airlines in the world to offer most comfortable economy class seat