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Transportation in Nigeria

  • Nigeria: Govt Sacks All Directors in Civil Aviation Authority

    NIGERIA, 2017/02/26 The Federal Government on Friday announced the sack of all the directors in the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the Country newspaper is reporting. The removal of the officials is with immediate result, the paper said. The Minister of National for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, announced the development, and directed the affected officials to instantly hand over to those next in command in their various directorates, the statement said.
  • Nigeria: Piracy in Nigeria

    NIGERIA, 2016/11/19 The event followed a presently familiar pattern: a small convoy of dusty 4×4 vehicles drove on to the edge of the airstrip at Galkayo in Puntland, north-central Somalia; armed security guards took up watchful positions nearby and a number of bemused-looking men stepped gingerly from the cars and lined up to have their photographs taken by the media.
  • Naira woes affecting air travel, businesses in Nigeria

    NIGERIA, 2016/10/29 Travel and Tour agencies inclunding domestic and international airlines operating in Nigeria are having a hard time keeping their businesses afloat as the crisis with the country’s currency, the naira, deepens. Nigeria is facing its initial recession in over twenty years brought on by the slump in oil prices. This has led to cuts in government revenue and chronic shortages of the US dollar. As a result of the currency crisis, some airlines are reducing the number of flights to Nigeria while others like United Airlines and Iberia stopped flying to Nigeria before this year.
  • As it expands in Africa, Uber adapts to local markets and adopts cash payments

    BOTSWANA, 2016/07/24 While Uber continues its push into Africa the company is making allowances to local markets and testing incomparable service models users wouldn’t see in other parts of the globe. Anyone can presently use the mobile app to hail a car in 12 cities across South Africa, Nigeria,Uganda, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt…. And in all of those nations users can pay drivers in hard cash. The expansion, and adaptation to the realities of doing business on-the-ground in Africa, are in line with CEO Travis Kalanick’s commitment late last year to “a large push in Africa.”
  • Routes Africa forum aims to improve African air connectivity

    BOTSWANA, 2016/05/15  An event dedicated to the development of the African aviation industry will take place next month in Tenerife (26-28 June) to encourage the launch of new air services to, from and within the African continent. Routes Africa 2016 will help to improve African connectivity by bringing together airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss next air services. Around 250 route development professionals are expected to attend the forum which was founded ten years ago to stimulate increase in the industry.
  • Nigeria: 15 Airports Get Satellite Navigation

    NIGERIA, 2015/10/09 The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has unveiled the Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) approaches for 15 Nigerian airports. As part of the drive to implement the PBN, which is a satellite-based navigation system, the agency has as well published the Standard Arrival Routes (STARs) and Standard Instrument Departure Routes (SIDs) for the Benin airport. The said publication, according to the agency, enables duly equipped aircraft with the necessary approval from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to fly PBN procedures into the airports without the use of ground navigational aids.
  • Air Traffic Controller in Kenya: Going slow

    NIGERIA, 2014/12/17 Going by completed experience with air traffic controllers in Nairobi may the go slow yesterday morning, which saw several planes held on the taxiway for extended periods of time. Of course burning unnecessary fuel and delaying passengers’ arrival at their destinations, only be a precursor to additional illegal strike action ahead and over the festive season. ATC personnel in Nairobi has in the completed entirely used such high density travel periods to press for their demands for higher pay, higher allowances and additional to be met by government and a regular aviation source.
  • The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)

    NIGERIA, 2014/12/05 The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has threatened to ground the operations of domestic airlines over their failure to pay their charges which have accumulated to over N5 billion. Such action will have adverse implication on the socio-economic activities of the country as no flight belonging to the indebted airlines will be given the start-up to take off. The agency said before it introduced the pay-as-you-go system, the airlines have owed the deficit and refused to pay despite entreaties and cajolings.
  • Chinese Firm Signs U.S.$12 Billion Deal to Build Lagos-Calabar Railway Line

    CHINA, 2014/12/05 A national-owned Chinese company has signed a $12 billion agreement with the federal government to build a railway along Nigeria's coast that is billed as China's single major overseas arrangement, the national media said on Thursday. China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. (CRCC) signed the official construction arrangement with the Nigerian government on Wednesday in Abuja, the Xinhua news agency said. The Nigerian railway will stretch for 1,402 kilometres (871 miles) along the coast, linking Lagos, the financial capital of Africa's major economy and leading oil producer, and Calabar in the east, according to the statement.
  • Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s major carrier

    NIGERIA, 2014/02/01 Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s major carrier, has announced a steady increase in the number of passengers it carried between 2012 and 2013, according to new figures released here Thursday by the airline. The figures showed that the airline moved 2,745,400 passengers in 2013, representing 18.6 % increase over the 2012 passenger figure of 2,315,247. Arik's spokesman, Mr. Adebanji Ola, told aviation correspondents that 'The month of March 2013 was significant in that the airline recorded the highest passenger figure for the year with a total of 260,132 passengers carried across its wide network of 30 destinations.