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Saudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists for the first time under a new visa regime to be announced Friday evening, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage said. The move is part of the kingdom’s efforts to boost tourism. Riyadh aims to increase international and domestic visits to 100 million a…
September 27, 2019
An Air Canada flight was forced to divert to Honolulu on Thursday, after suffering turbulence, and dozens of people were injured in the incident, local media reported. According to Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick, the Boeing 777-200 plane was carrying 269 passengers and 15 crew members flying from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia. Fitzpatrick said, the…
July 12, 2019
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not practise on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said. Yared Getachew, 29, was due for refresher training at the end of March, his colleague told Reuters, two months after Ethiopian…
March 21, 2019
The black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed with the loss of 157 lives recently have been read successfully, French accident investigators said on Monday. “The boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX 8, which crashed on March 10 shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, have now been sent back to Ethiopia,” French air…
March 19, 2019
China’s aviation regulator said on Monday it had ordered Chinese airlines to suspend their Boeing Co 737 MAX aircraft operations by 6 p.m. (5.00 a.m. ET) following a deadly crash of one of the planes in Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157…
March 11, 2019
Akanimo Kufre It was a clement morning in the coastal capital city of Calabar, the Governor was listening with fascinated attention when Captain Olusina Akinsete proclaimed that “the aircraft is the safest machine ever created by man," with a religious assurance before the dignified audience seated inside the executive chambers. These cardinal words hold the…
March 5, 2019
By 'Dotun Akintomide Following the federal government's decision, suspending the National career project, Nigeria Air, Gombe State Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo has alleged that over N1.2bn of tax payers' money might have been expended on the said project. Reacting to the shock development that has grounded the project before take-off, Governor Dankwambo on his twitter handle…
September 20, 2018
The U.S. Embassy Nigeria says it has temporarily suspended its consular services in Abuja due to reasons beyond its control. The embassy in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja maintained that its Consulate Office in Lagos was not affected by the development. While expressing regret on the inconvenience the development it might cause to applicants,…
August 15, 2018
By 'Dotun Akintomide In an atmosphere where businesses have many odds stacked against them, getting the right motivation and direction for startups to stay afloat doesn't come easy. As this explains why many new entrants struggle in vain to successfully navigate businesses past the formative stage, let alone expand locally and across the globe. To…
June 10, 2018
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Saudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists for the first time under a new visa regime to be announced Friday evening, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage said. The move is part of the kingdom’s efforts to boost tourism. Riyadh aims to increase international and domestic visits to 100 million a…
September 27, 2019
An Air Canada flight was forced to divert to Honolulu on Thursday, after suffering turbulence, and dozens of people were injured in the incident, local media reported. According to Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick, the Boeing 777-200 plane was carrying 269 passengers and 15 crew members flying from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia. Fitzpatrick said, the…
July 12, 2019
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not practise on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said. Yared Getachew, 29, was due for refresher training at the end of March, his colleague told Reuters, two months after Ethiopian…
March 21, 2019
The black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed with the loss of 157 lives recently have been read successfully, French accident investigators said on Monday. “The boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX 8, which crashed on March 10 shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, have now been sent back to Ethiopia,” French air…
March 19, 2019
China’s aviation regulator said on Monday it had ordered Chinese airlines to suspend their Boeing Co 737 MAX aircraft operations by 6 p.m. (5.00 a.m. ET) following a deadly crash of one of the planes in Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on Sunday, killing all 157…
March 11, 2019
Akanimo Kufre It was a clement morning in the coastal capital city of Calabar, the Governor was listening with fascinated attention when Captain Olusina Akinsete proclaimed that “the aircraft is the safest machine ever created by man," with a religious assurance before the dignified audience seated inside the executive chambers. These cardinal words hold the…
March 5, 2019
By 'Dotun Akintomide Following the federal government's decision, suspending the National career project, Nigeria Air, Gombe State Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo has alleged that over N1.2bn of tax payers' money might have been expended on the said project. Reacting to the shock development that has grounded the project before take-off, Governor Dankwambo on his twitter handle…
September 20, 2018
The U.S. Embassy Nigeria says it has temporarily suspended its consular services in Abuja due to reasons beyond its control. The embassy in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja maintained that its Consulate Office in Lagos was not affected by the development. While expressing regret on the inconvenience the development it might cause to applicants,…
August 15, 2018
By 'Dotun Akintomide In an atmosphere where businesses have many odds stacked against them, getting the right motivation and direction for startups to stay afloat doesn't come easy. As this explains why many new entrants struggle in vain to successfully navigate businesses past the formative stage, let alone expand locally and across the globe. To…
June 10, 2018
