Domestic airlines’ top guns birth ‘Spring Alliance’ for better service
Sade Williams
March 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 […]
MARRIOTT IKEJA GRA: Marriott’s marks are all over 5-star hotel wonder in Ikeja GRA
Phillip IsakpaJanuary 26, 2021
SIFAX Group’s hospitality hotel almost ready Exquisite luxury on offer to business travellers C-suite executives traversing the world for business meetings, where they discuss and negotiate deals, are always on the lookout for two things – their flight arrangements (if they are not using executive chartered or own jets) and the destination hospitality accommodation […]
Air Peace extends horizon, commences flight to Markurdi
Zainab IwayemiDecember 8, 2020
By Zainab Iwayemi In continuation of its expansion drive, Nigeria’s current airline, Air Peace, on Monday, commenced commercial flights into Makurdi, Benue State. The development saw the state government and indigenes of Benue come out in a pool of excitement as it marks the only airline with commercial flights into Makurdi, Benue State at […]
Covid-19 hits global vacation rental business, records $35bn loss in 2020
Zainab IwayemiDecember 3, 2020
By Zainab Iwayemi Short-let apartment rental business has over time become a new trend as sojourners now show great preference for a fully furnished home, rather than a hotel or motel. Sadly, Covid-19 pandemic has caused a heavy storm in the business as the compulsion to stay home during the lockdown made it impossible […]
Covid-19 hammers Ikeja Hotels with N1.4bn post tax loss, Q3 financials show
Charles AbuedeNovember 4, 2020
By Charles Abuede Loss to affect year-end dividends declaration Legal tussle with Lagos State could cost N4.63bn Ikeja Hotel Plc, the hospitality company listed on The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has informed its shareholders that the effects brought about by the pandemic will likely affect dividend declaration for the year ended December 31, […]
Nigeria’s sub-regional Anambra building cargo-passenger airport to change air travels dynamics
Ben EguzozieNovember 3, 2020
Terminal development without foreign loans To compete for passenger share with 17 big terminals, including nearby Asaba, Enugu, Owerri Nigeria’s sub-regional, Anambra State’s incoming large cargo and passenger airport at Umuleri, Anambra East Local Council of the state, already adjudged as Nigeria’s second biggest airport after the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, […]
Obudu Ranch Resort N10bn tourist hotspot finally catches Ayade’s fancy in twilight of his administration
Ben EguzozieSeptember 1, 2020
One of many neglected for 5 years Governor Ben Ayade, a professor of micro-biology, has roughly 36 months to the termination of his final term as chief executive of Cross River, a littoral state with estimated $12.3 billion gross domestic product (GDP). With less than three years to leave office, Ayade, after a week’s […]