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  • Ground Handling Priorities Post Pandemic: Tackling Labor Shortages, Safety, Modernization

    • November 17, 2021
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    The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is focusing on standards, digitalization and addressing the skilled labor shortage to build resilience and ensure long-term sustainability post pandemic for ground handling activities.  “There will be challenges as ground handling operations ramp up to meet growing demand as the aviation industry’s recovery from COVID-19 progresses. Overcoming labor shortages,

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  • IATA Appoints Marie Owens As Chief Economist

    • November 15, 2021
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    The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents some 290 airlines comprising 83% of global air traffic has announced that Marie Owens Thomsen will join the Association as its Chief Economist effective 4 January 2022. Owens Thomsen will come from Banque Lombard Odier, where she has served as Head of Global Trends and Sustainability since

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  • National Aviation Services (NAS) Supports Gender Diversity through IATA’s 25by2025 Initiative

    • November 15, 2021
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    National Aviation Services (NAS), the fastest growing aviation services provider in the emerging markets has signed IATA’s 25by2025 gender diversity initiative. 25by2025 is a voluntary initiative for aviation to improve female representation in the industry. The campaign is an initial step to making the aviation industry more gender balanced. Rabah Bu Hamdan, Group Chief Human Resources Officer for NAS said,

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  • COURT ORDERS ABUJA DISCO TO PAY A CUSTOMER N10MILLION FOR “ILLEGAL DISCONNECTION” OF PREPAID METER

    • November 14, 2021
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    An Abuja High Court has ordered the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Plc. (AEDC) to pay a customer, Ifeyinwa Ikeatuegwu the sum of N10 million for unlawful disconnection of her prepaid metre. Justice K.N Ogbonnaya made this ruling in Abuja on Friday, December 11, 2020, following a suit filed against AEDC by Ikechukwu Ikogwe, the plaintiff’s

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  • BREAKING: NERC increases prices of electricity meters

    • November 12, 2021
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    The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. The circular,

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  • Ikeja Electric introduces SingleView for Prepaid Meter Management

    • November 10, 2021
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    In line with its ‘customer first; technology now’ mantra, Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), has announced the introduction of Singleview, an interactive platform designed to enable prepaid meter customers access their vending pattern and consumption. At the launch of Singleview at its Headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, October 8, 2021 Ikeja Electric explained that

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  • FAAN plans tough punishments to tackle corrupt practices at airports

    • November 10, 2021
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    The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Monday declared that henceforth any public or private sector official at the airport found to be involved in whatever form of corrupt practice would lose his or her On Duty Card permanently. It said this and other measures had become necessary following the repeated trending online videos of

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  • UNLOCKING THE WORLD TO VACCINATED INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS.

    • November 9, 2021
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    The United States reopens to vaccinated international travelersMarnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — The United States flung its doors open to vaccinated international travelers on Monday, welcoming many visitors who’ve been shut out of the country for nearly 20 months. For Maria Giribet Caldentey, it marked a precious opportunity to see her twin grandchildren in California.

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  • Air Cargo, up 9.1% in September, Capacity Remains Constrained

    • November 4, 2021
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    The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released September 2021 data for global air cargo markets, showing that demand continued to be well above pre-crisis levels and that capacity constraints persist.   According to IATA’s latest report, the comparisons between 2021 and 2020 monthly results are distorted by the extraordinary impact of COVID-19. Unless otherwise

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  • eNaira: CBN plans app for persons without bank accounts

    • November 2, 2021
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    • Category: Digital Economy, Economy, Latest News
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    The Chief Executive Officer of Bitt Inc., Brian Popelka, has said a phone application for people without bank accounts will be rolling out soon.He said the present version of the eNaira app could only be used by people with bank accounts. Bitt Inc. is the Central Bank of Nigeria’s technical partner for the digital currency,

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