Category: Aviation/Tourism

Airlines hike fares in face of high operating costs

….Abuja To Lagos N100k, Lagos To Kano N120k, Again Airlines Hike Fares …..Full list of how much you will pay on your next flights to Port Harcourt, Kano,...

Luxuries, indulgences and expectations

By Simbo Olorunfemi As the plane made its way into the Abuja skies, weeks back, I made a quick count of the luxury birds sunbathing to the right of the runway. This was...

Tourism:What makes Ikorodu unique

  By Sina Loremikan Odo Nla Oba-elect felicitates with Oba of Ikorodu on ‘Odun Osu’ festival It is in Ikorodu that we have the Island on which the first Peace...

Stranded for 12 hours at Abuja airport just to fly to Lagos

    Through, it all my biggest challenge was explaining to my nine-year-old why our flight that was scheduled to depart Abuja for Lagos by 6.30p.m, was not...

Germany:Lufthansa ground staff to begin one-day strike on Wednesday

  Germany’s Verdi union has called on Lufthansa ground staff to walk off the job and strike on Wednesday, to increase leverage in salary negotiations with...

33 escape death as plane engine catches fire mid-air

    A major air accident was averted when an Overland Airways aircraft made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, from...

Customs generates N2b from private aircraft owners

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said it has so far generated about N2 billion from the revalidation of documents of private aircraft across the country. The service...

14 bodies recovered at Nepali plane crash site

    About 14 bodies have been recovered from the crash site of a Nepali passenger plane in a remote hilly area in Nepal’s Mustang district, the Civil...

Passenger plane goes missing in Nepal

….Poor weather hampers search operation   A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said,...

Corpse disrupt air services at Murtala Airport

  The international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was temporarily shut in the early hours of Thursday after the mangled body of a dead...