Emirates to suspend Nigeria flights from September 1 over $85m trapped revenue
Onome Amuge
August 18, 2022
Emirates Airlines, the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has announced the suspension of its flight operations to Nigeria, effective September 1, 2022. The Dubai-based airline and subsidiary of the Emirates Group made the disclosure following its inability to repatriate foreign exchange earnings worth $85 million from Nigeria. In a statement issued on Thursday […]
Aero Contractors suspends scheduled services over cost
Sade WilliamsJuly 18, 2022
Sade Williams/Business a.m. Nigeria’s oldest airline, Aero Contractors, on Monday said it would suspend its scheduled passenger flight services temporarily beginning from Wednesday, July 20, 2022. The airline said the suspension is “due to the impact of the challenging operating environment on our daily operations”. It added, however, that this does not in any way […]
Air Peace opens a flyway to Niamey with Embraer 145
Sade WilliamsMarch 21, 2022
BY Sade Williams/Business a.m. Air Peace, the largest airline in West and Central Africa by fleet size, opened a flyway into Niamey from Nigeria when it made its inaugural flight into the capital city of Niger Republic, March 11, using one of its Embraer 145 jets from its subsidiary, Air Peace Hopper. Augustin Kamano, director, […]
Virgin, Delta, Air France, Ethiopian boost NAHCO with handling renewals
Sade WilliamsMarch 21, 2022
BY Sade Williams/Business a.m. NAHCO Plc, leading Nigerian airline ground handling operators, has seen its business receive a big boost with new businesses and renewals of its ground handling contracts by top airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Delta Airlines, Air France/KLM Royal Dutch and Ethiopian Airlines. The new businesses and renewals signpost the company’s dominance of […]
TLN Nigeria, UAE plug citizenship by investment
Onome AmugeMarch 20, 2022
BY ONOME AMUGE The Luxury Network Nigeria (TLN Nigeria) in collaboration with The Luxury Network UAE (TLN UAE), and world-class residency and citizenship advisory, RIF Trust, recently organised an exclusive VIP dinner and networking event, centred on the benefits and path to acquiring second citizenship through high-yield investment placement for high-net-worth individuals The event, held […]
Ahead Easter, Green Africa throws in N25,500 fare offer to celebrate
Sade WilliamsMarch 20, 2022
BY Sade Williams/Business a.m. Ahead of the upcoming Easter celebrations for 2022, Lagos, Nigeria based value airline, Green Africa, Nigeria’s has put on the market a special ‘One Month of Easter’ offer with a starting fare of N25,500 only, from 17th March to 18th April 2022 across selected routes. The offer is applicable for travel […]
Domestic airlines’ top guns birth ‘Spring Alliance’ for better service
Sade WilliamsMarch 14, 2022
BY: Sade Williams/Business a.m. Nigerian domestic airline operators are pushing steadily towards working together to deliver better services and give richly enhanced customer experience like their counterparts do in advanced markets, it is beginning to emerge. Last week, six of them, including Nigeria’s and West Africa’s largest airline by fleet size, Air Peace, Azman Air, […]
Qatar Airways expands operations in Nigeria with Doha-Kano route
Adeola AjakaiyeMarch 3, 2022
BY: ADEOLA AJAKAIYE Qatar Airways has begun operations in the commercial city of Kano, as part of a move geared at strengthening the existing economic tie between Nigeria and the peninsular Arab country. The launch marked the start of four new weekly flights from Kano and Doha, the capital of Qatar, through Abuja. The flights […]
NAHCO controls ground handling as United Airlines returns to Nigeria
Sade WilliamsDecember 2, 2021
By Sade Williams/business a.m. NAHCO Plc, the Nigeria leader in airport ground handling operations, took full control of handling business in the welcoming of the United States-based United Airlines back to Lagos, Nigeria, in a manner analysts have described as admirable. The Airline flight UA612 touched down at about 11:10 a.m. at the […]
FG launches Temporary Passport for Nigerians in the diaspora
Online EditorMarch 10, 2021
Arakunle Kayode Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, has launched the Nigerian Temporary Passport (NTP) on Tuesday at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) headquarters in Abuja. The new temporary passport is a variety of passport that will be issued at the Nigerian Embassies or at the Nigerian High Commissions outside the country to Nigerians desirous […]