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  • Aero Contractors to Suspend Operations July 20

    • July 19, 2022
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    One of the leading airline operators in Nigeria, Aero Contractors, had reportedly announced the indefinite suspension of its operations, citing the rising cost of maintenance, inflation and foreign exchange (FX) scarcity, amongst others as the reason for its action. In a statement issued on Monday, the company, which is the oldest airline in the country,

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  • New UK Visa Exempts Graduates From Nigerian Universities.

    • May 6, 2022
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    The United Kingdom is set to begin issuance of a new visa that allows holders of first degrees, masters, and doctorates to travel to the country and work in fields such as science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship by May 30. The visa – high potential individual visa, allows applicants to relocate to the UK without

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  • Airlines, agents to begin sale of tickets in dollar April, 19

    • April 14, 2022
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    Information has emerged that with effect from April 19, 2022, some foreign airlines’ electronics would start accepting issuing of tickets in United States Dollars and no more in Naira. This new policy was caused as a result of the difficulty in repatriating airlines’ huge funds stuck in Nigeria and other countries coupled with foreign exchange

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  • COVID-19: FG Scraps Post-arrival PCR Test for Fully Vaccinated Travellers

    • April 4, 2022
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    The Federal Government has scrapped post-arrival PCR COVID tests for fully vaccinated travellers entering Nigeria.This was contained in a revised travel protocol the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 released at the weekend. The committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, said fully vaccinated passengers

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  • Omicron: FG To Ban Flights From UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Argentina

    • December 12, 2021
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    The Federal Government is set to ban flights from the United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina and Saudi Arabia in retaliation against their decisions to have included Nigeria in red list countries. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who disclosed this on Sunday revealed on stated that the ban on the three nations would be announced on Monday

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  • Nigeria-UAE Diplomatic Row: Air Peace Accuses UAE of Falsity

    • December 12, 2021
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    The diplomatic row between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) got messier over the weekend as Air Peace airline allegedly accused the Emirates of falsity that it lost its flight slots at the Sharjah International Airport because it stopped operating commercial flights into the airport. The Management of Air Peace had described the claim

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  • Emirates suspends flights to Nigeria again

    • December 11, 2021
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    Emirates Airlines has suspended once again all its flights to Nigeria as a retaliatory action taken against the Federal Government. The Nigerian government had earlier reduced the frequencies approved for the Middle East airline to just one over an ongoing diplomatic row. In a statement issued by the airline Friday evening, it said, “With the

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  • Air Zimbabwe and Nigeria’s MedView Airlines included on EU’s Blacklist over safety deficiencies

    • December 7, 2021
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    The European Commission has updated its list of airlines banned from operating in the European airspace because they fail to meet international safety standards. The bans are “due to inadequate safety oversight by the aviation authorities of these nations”, the EU Commission said. Fifteen countries have all their airlines, 90 in total, banned from flying over Europe.

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  • RwandaAir Resumes Flight Operations From Lagos To Dubai

    • December 7, 2021
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     RwandAir had announced resumption of flight services from Nigeria to Dubai effective 28th November 2021. RwandAir Limited is the flag carrier airline of Rwanda. It operates domestic and international services to East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from its main base at Kigali International Airport in Kigali Below

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  • Buhari jets to Dubai for EXPO 2020

    • December 1, 2021
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    The President Muhammadu Buhari, has departed Abuja on Wednesday to attend EXPO 2020 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. This came hours after receiving the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the State House, Abuja, where he signed Memoranda of Understanding on youth development and launched the Nigeria-South Africa youth dialogue. Special Adviser to the

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