The Honourable Minister of Aviation & Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN has pledged that the Federal government of Nigeria “will continue to play the international aeropolitics to ensure that our indigenous airlines sustain the gains already made, even as they continue to expand their routes while delivering excellent services.” In a goodwill message delivered at the Inaugural Lecture organized …
Cameroon, Egypt To Activate BASA
Cameroon and Egypt have concluded negotiations for the activation of the existing Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) between the two States. Cameroon, located in Central Africa and Egypt, located in Northern Africa, signed a BASA for direct air transport connectivity between the countries in the year 1999. But the agreement is currently not in use as air carriers in both States …
Rwandair To Start Kinshasa Flights As Rwanda, DRC Sign BASA
Photo caption: Director General of Rwanda CAA and his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, both in the middle flanked by other representatives from both CAAs, presenting the documents of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) signed by both countries recently in Kinshasa, the DRC capital Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have opened a new phase of …
Capt. Muhtar Usman: Commitment To Improved Regulation In Nigeria – By Roland Ohaeri
According to the 2018 Safety Report released by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Nigeria ranks among States with above 60% Effective Implementation of the critical safety elements under the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP). Besides, Nigeria has renewed its Category 1 certificate of the United States, and continues to successfully renew this category 1. Nigeria has continued to …
Nigeria, India Sign BASA
Nigeria’s Honourable Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, says Nigeria has signed a Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) with the Republic of India. Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Civil Aviation, Government of India, confirms the air service agreement signed by both countries. He says: “We have just revised our Air Services Agreement (ASA) for better …
IATA Urges Nigerian Carriers To Fly More African Routes
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) wants Nigerian carriers to start enjoying the benefits of liberalization of African skies by flying into more African routes, thereby actualizing the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) launched in January 2018 by African Heads of State. Ms. Adefunke Adeyemi, Regional Director, Advocacy and Strategic Relations, Africa, IATA, made this call in Lagos, recently …
Overland Airways Touches Down In Lome Amidst Accolades
Airline Commits To ECOWAS Community Objective Opens New Opportunity For Trade, Business Community Nigeria’s frontline airline, Overland Airways, on Sunday, August 12, 2018 began flight services from Lagos to Lome, Republic of Togo. The inaugural flight was warmly received by the aviation, business and leisure communities as an essential quick-link between both countries. Overland Airways’ inaugural flight took off …
Driving SAATM
…20 Of 26 SAATM States Sign MoI To Operationalize SAATM, YD In line with the African Union’s (AU) efforts to ensure that African States fully implement key measures needed for the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), participants at the ‘4th AUC Ministerial Working Group Meeting on the Operationalization Of SAATM’ held recently in Lomé, Togo, sought ways to fast-track …








