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- 3 Mar 2017
FG Says Nnamdi Azikiwe Int’l Airport Abuja Will Close Midnight Next Tuesday
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the temporary closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, to enable the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) carry out a major…
- 6 Dec 2013
Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport re-Opened for Flights
Nigeria aviation authorities have re-opened Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja which has been shut since Wednesday night as a result of an accident involving a B747 Saudi Air Cargo flight…
- 21 Aug 2024
Molokwu Azikiwe Joins the Prestigious Ndi-Ichie of Onitsha
Molokwu Azikiwe, son of Late Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Professor Uche Azikiwe joins the prestigious ranks if Ndi Ichie in Onitsha. The nuclear family of the revered Owelle is in top celebration…
- 3 Jul 2014
FAAN to Shut Abuja Airport Runway for Rehabilitation
The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced plans to close the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. According to Yakubu Dati, coordinating general manager…
- 4 Jun 2015
SAHCOL Abuja Station Receives ISAGO Certification
The Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja Station has passed the International Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO), conducted by the…
- 18 Apr 2017
Air Peace Resumes Abuja Flights Wednesday
Air Peace airlines says it will resume flight operations at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday. The announcement by the airline in a statement by Mr Chris Iwarah, Corporate…
- 6 Mar 2017
NAI Airport Closure, Arik Air Releases New Kaduna Schedule
Ahead scheduled six weeks’ closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from March 8, 2017, and the diversion of traffic to Kaduna Airport, Arik Air has released its flight schedule. Arik…
- 29 Jan 2013
NIMET Weather Instrument Calibration Lab Operational In 4 Airports
Weather Instrument Calibration Laboratory belonging to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has commenced operations in Murtala Mohammed Airport Ikeja, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport…
- 9 Nov 2017
UNIZIK Designs Software for Electronic Health Record
Some researchers in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, have designed the Electronic Patient Record with Integrated Drug Information System…
- 25 Jan 2018
FAAN closes Abuja runway for 30 minutes as jet skidded off runway
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) temporarily closed the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, following a private jet’s skidding off the runway Thursday afternoon. The…
- 28 Feb 2013
Overland Airways Resumes Flight to Akure Airport
Overland Airways has resumed domestic flight services from the Akure Airport to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with effect from February 25, Capt. Edward Boyo, chief executive…
- 12 Nov 2023
We're Cooperating with Relevant Agencies on Runway Incursion Incident - Aero Contractors
Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s oldest aviation company is cooperating with the relevant agencies following a runway incursion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja this afternoon. All…
- 10 Mar 2013
FAAN Achieves Seamless Power Change-Over at NAIA.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), said that the temporary disconnection of power supply at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, was meant to enable their engineers…
- 1 Aug 2014
Airport Workers Sensitized On Ebola Virus
Workers from different agencies operating at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International, Abuja were sensitized by Port Health officials on the dangers posed by…
- 23 Nov 2016
Glo Takes 3 A-list Artistes to Awka for Campus Storm
The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka, Anambra State will this Friday, experience entertainment like never before, as the grandmasters of data, Globacom, takes its flagship musical show, Glo…
- 24 Apr 2015
FAAN Grounds Arik Air over N1.2Bn Debt
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) yesterday disrupted Arik Air’s operations at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja over debts estimated at over N1.2billion. As a result of the…
- 14 Jan 2024
NiMET, UNIZIK Sign MoU to Build Weather Station
Nigerian Meteorological Agency and the Nnamdi Azikiwe University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a weather station at the university. This was according to a statement by NiMet’s…
- 18 Oct 2015
FAAN to Commence Work on 2nd Runway at Abuja Airport
Engineer Saleh Dunoma, managing director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has assured of the authority’s efforts to kick start a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe…
- 18 May 2022
FAAN Launches App for Airport Taxi
Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has launched a Taxi App for the operations of FAAN Taxi at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Speaking at the ceremony at the airport in…
- 9 Jul 2014
Abuja Airport Runway Re-Opened
The runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja which was closed for 30 hours for rehabilitation on July 5, 2014 has been re-opened for flight operations. Reports from pilots who…
- 19 Sept 2013
FAAN Says Remodeled Airports Facilitating 2013 Hajj Operations
The remodeling of airport terminals by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has enhanced the airlift of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the 2013 Hajj, which commenced on September 14, 2013,…
- 29 Dec 2024
TAC Organizes 4th Edition of the Industrial Games Challenge
The just concluded 4th edition of the Industrial Games Challenge organized by Total Automation Concepts (TAC) ltd for tertiary institutions was conducted online on Saturday, 21st December, 2024, just…
- 17 Jul 2026
EFCC Busts NIS Visa Overstay Racket, Uncovers N700m in an Account
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered an alleged multi-billion-naira visa overstay racketeering network within the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), with at least five…
- 8 May 2023
NSIB Begins Investigation into Max Air Incident
Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) said it has commenced investigation into a serious incident involving a B737-400 with nationality and registration marks 5N-MBD operated by Max Air, which…
- 7 Dec 2020
Uzoka, UBA’s GMD Dedicates Prestigious Zik Leadership Award to Staff and Customers
Kennedy Uzoka, group managing director/chief executive officer, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, was on Sunday night presented with The Zik Prize for Professional Leadership. l-r: Former Managing…
- 29 Sept 2015
@55: United Nigeria, Telecommunications Considered Top Most Achievements- Survey
The yearly Independence Day Special Edition Poll results released by NOIPolls Limited have revealed that Nigerians consider ‘unity of the nation’ (20 percent) as the most important achievement of the…
- 26 May 2008
NCC Donates Engineering and ICT Books to Institutions
The Nigerian Communications Commission has donated a total of 385 more books on Engineering as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to four institutions in different parts of the…
- 5 May 2023
5000 Nigerian Evacuees from Sudan to receive free airtime & data from MTN Nigeria
As Nigeria welcomes back the first set of evacuees fleeing Sudan, MTN Nigeria is offering free airtime and data to the returnees to support their resettlement in Nigeria. The North African country…
- 1 Aug 2014
Demonstration Flight Hours Cost Airlines N36m for AOC Acquisition
Aviation experts in Finum Aviation Services have decried the estimated sum of N36 million spent by airlines in sponsorship for the fifty demonstration flight hours in the course of Air Operators…
- 12 Mar 2013
FAAN Lures Investors to Airport's Transformation Agenda
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said it will work with entrepreneurs with track records of excellence in their various business endeavours, in the authority’s quest to…