FG Sets Date For Resumption Of International Flights Federal Government announces date for the resumption of international flights in Nigeria. The Nigerian government led by President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the resumption of international flights from August 29, 2020. READ ALSO: Resumption: Schools In Daura Record High Students Turnout The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika … Read more
Barely two weeks after the Federal Government reopened some airports in the country for domestic flight with an option of passengers arriving at the airport three hours before their flight, the government has now announced that travelers can now arrive at the airport one hour thirty minutes before their flight. This was disclosed by Minister of … Read more
The Federal Airport Authority (FAAN) has restated commitment towards ensuring a zero Coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission as Port Harcourt International Airport resumes operations. Mr Abayomi Akinbinu, the Regional Manager, South-South and South-East, FAAN, said this on Saturday at the airport during the arrival of the first flight after three months of COVID-19 shutdown. The first flight … Read more
The minister for aviation, Hadi Sirika on Wednesday, announced that domestic flight in Lagos and Abuja airports would resume on July 8, 2020. Sirika who made this announcement via his official Twitter page, said while operations would resume at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe Airport in Abuja on July 8, other airports … Read more
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN has announced that it will soon reopen for operations, urging its customers to ‘please bear with us’. FAAN, in a Twitter post on Monday, apologizes to their customers for any inconvenience in the delay of reopening the airport for flight. Recall that the Presidential Task Force for COVID-19 … Read more
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu on Thursday announced the immediate reopening of all three of the landlocked country’s international airports to help revitalize the tourism sector hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Lungu said decreased economic activity since the start of April caused a loss in revenues of 20.8 billion kwachas ($1.1 billion). He announced the … Read more
Nigerian House of Representatives has resolved to urge President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately direct the Presidential Taskforce on COVlD-19 and Ministry of Aviation and its agencies to commence local Flights beginning with the opening of at least one Airport in each of the six Geo-Political Zones to give all zones a sense of belonging and … Read more
213 British nationals were evacuated from Nigeria through the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on a British Airways flight BA9157 on Monday. The evacuation of the British nationals is as a result of the current coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria. Several European countries have recently also evacuated their nationals from Nigeria. United States of America had … Read more
Wives, children, friends and well wishers, have welcomed the former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II as he arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos late Friday night. His departure from Nasarawa came after Justice Anwuli Chikere of a federal high court in Abuja declared granted an interim order releasing him from his “detention” … Read more
China has accused the United States of causing panic and ‘creating and spreading fear’ in its response to the deadly coronavirus, including imposing a ban on Chinese travellers. The US ‘hasn’t provided any substantial assistance’ and has only created ‘panic’, said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying at a regular press briefing on Monday. It comes … Read more
The Nigeria Immigration Service Airport Command has rescued seven girls who were being trafficked to three countries. The NIS discovered them at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, as they were about to depart for Dubai and Egypt. Four of the girls were to fly to Cairo, while the other three were scheduled to arrive … Read more
No fewer than 16 people were killed by a typhoon that swept across remote villages and popular tourist areas of the central Philippines on Christmas Day, disaster agency officials said. Typhoon Phanfone, with winds of 195 kilometres (120 miles) an hour, tore roofs off houses and toppled electric posts as it cut across the Philippines … Read more
A passenger, identified as Chukwuma Anthony Ezeh, has slumped and died at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. An official source at the MMIA arrival terminal said that the passenger slumped on arrival from China and died while waiting to collect his luggage Ezeh, according to information on his passport, was 47 years old at … Read more
– Reports which claimed there was a plane crash at Minna airport, Niger state has debunked – The reports stated that a plane conveying over 600 pilgrims returning from the 2019 annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia crash landed at the Minna – The airport authority explained that none of its aircraft never developed any engine … Read more
There was outrage among passengers and airline workers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA ), Lagos on Saturday, September 7, following the arrest and harassment of the Duty Manager of Virgin Atlantic Airways and some other staff of the airline by some police officers who claimed to be acting on the instruction of the … Read more