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  • Air Peace announces bird strike on Lagos-bound Owerri flight

    • November 22, 2021
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    MANAGEMENT of Air Peace has announced that it’s flight P47159 from Owerri to Lagos has suffered a bird strike. The bird strike according to the airline affected the Boeing 737 aircraft engine and forced a diversion to Port Harcourt where another aircraft will be ferrying the passengers The airline in a statement wrote,”This is to

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  • TCN begins nationwide repairs of old circuit breakers.

    • November 22, 2021
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    The Transmission Company of Nigeria on Sunday announced the commencement of the rehabilitation and replacement of old circuit breakers in the nation’s transmission network. It said the project was geared towards improving bulk power transmission to power distribution load centres across the country. The General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, said the rehabilitation and

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  • Security environment in Ethiopia remains very fluid, US Warns Citizens To Depart Ethiopia Now

    • November 18, 2021
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    The U.S. Embassy has urged U.S citizens in Ethiopia to depart now using commercially available options, using commercial Air Availability from Addis Ababa The U.S. Embassy is unlikely to be able to assist U.S. citizens in Ethiopia with departure if commercial options become unavailable. Please see information on What the Department of State Can and

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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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