LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dubai’s Emirates plans to reduce flights to Nigeria this month due to troubles repatriating revenue from Africa’s most populous nation, according to a letter sent to the government and seen by Reuters. Emirates plans to cut the number of flights to Lagos to seven from 11 by mid-August, the letter said, adding…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa. Flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam take about 11 hours, with the cargo plane believed to have made one stop, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is very unusual for…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says it will enforce the principle of reciprocity in granting permission to airlines to resume operations into the country as the Nigerian airspace reopens for international flights on August 29. Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika stated this on Thursday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19….
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has lambasted private aircraft charter operator, Executive Jet Services, for linking him to the flight which took singer, Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley, to Abuja over the weekend. The singer, alongside ex-Big Brother Naija housemate, Kim Oprah, and eight others boarded the company’s flight…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government on Wednesday , extended the suspension imposed on local and international flights by additional four weeks. Speaking at the briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 , Secretary to the Government of the Federation, , Boss Mustapha said after due consultation, the federal government decided to extend the…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representaives have called on the Federal Government halt flight from UK,Spain, Italy,China, South Korea where there are high cases of dreaded coronavirus. The lawmakers made the resolution on Tuesday while adopting a motion of urgent national importance by Onofiok Luke(Akwa-Ibom, PDP). They also resolved that only Nigerian…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As precautionary measure to check the spread of Coronavirus, Turkish Airlines has announced the cancellation of all its flights to its destinations in Nigeria as it also cut back its operations to other international destinations. The airline, which brought in the index coronavirus case, the Italian to Nigeria in a statement, said…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bangladeshi passenger who reportedly stripped naked and attacked a stewardess during a flight from Malaysia, has been arrested, the airline said Monday. Shortly after the Malindo Air flight departed from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, the 20-year-old took his clothes off and started watching pornography on his laptop. The man, a student…
