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Akwa United, Dana Air Sign Mega Sponsorship Deal

...Ready To Meet Banjul Hawks Of Gambia By Akanimo Kufre Recent class act and superlative performance of Akwa United Football Club has paid off with great a moral boosting deal. The team management led by Paul Bassey last Friday signed a multi-million naira sponsorship MOU deal with Dana Air which according to the club chairman…

Nigeria, 22 African Countries Launch Single Aviation Market

Twenty-three African states, including Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, have launched a single aviation market in a bid to boost connectivity, reduce fares and stimulate economic growth on a continent widely considered the most expensive and inconvenient to fly around, reports FT. Three decades after the concept was first proposed, the 55-member African Union on…

Domestic Airlines Record 3M Passengers In 6 Months

Domestic airlines in Nigeria lifted a total of 3,287,310 passengers in the first six months of this year, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The figure, however, represents a 21 per cent decrease, compared to the 4,193,862 passengers airlifted within the period last year. According to the Consumer Protection Directorate of the Nigerian Civil…

Venue Owners Tasked On Standards, Quality Delivery

By 'Dotun Akintomide Venue Owners in Nigeria have been charged to deliver on their mandate of providing quality service to venue users to deepen the sector's contribution to the socio-economic development of the country. The New Diplomat gathered this much at the 2017 Venue Owners' Summit organized in Lagos entitled "Venue Management: Harnessing The Business…

Tourism Key To Unlocking Nigeria’s Hospitality Potentials – CEO Fusion Group

By 'Dotun Akintomide With a dismissal 4.8% contribution to National Gross Domestic Product (Jumia Travels 2017), local and foreign experts advertently believed that the hospitality industry lags behind other sectors of the Nigerian economy amid several untapped potentials, notwithstanding the diversification effort of the incumbent administration to scale up activities. But for the Group Managing…

128 Nigerians Deported From Libya

No fewer than 128 Nigerians deported from Libya arrived in Lagos on Thursday aboard a chartered Airbus A320 Afriqiyah aircraft with registration number 5A-ONA The aircraft landed at 5.35p.m at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The deportees, comprising 126 male, two female, were flown back into the waiting hands of officers of the…

90% Of Travel Agents Are Unregistered, Says NANTA

The National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA), has disclosed that about 90 per cent of those parading themselves as traveling agents in Nigeria are unregistered with the body or any other recognised association anywhere in the world. According to the president of the association, Mr. Bankole Bernard, the unregistered agents, are numbering 6,000 across the…

Europe’s Generosity Motivates More Migrants To Leave Africa – Bill Gates

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has called on the European Union to reconsider its open-door policy of welcoming migrants as it motivates many more to leave Africa. He said this week during an interview with a German media that European countries should take measures to make it more difficult for migrants to leave Africa through the…

US Lifts Laptop Ban On Passengers Flying Etihad, Emirates and Turkish Airlines

The U.S. government has lifted the controversial laptop ban for flights to the U.S. for three major airlines. Effective immediately, Etihad Airways, Emirates Airline and Turkish Airlines have all been cleared to allow customers to bring electronic devices, including laptops, tablets and e-readers, on flights from the Middle East into the U.S.. That still leaves…

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Akwa United, Dana Air Sign Mega Sponsorship Deal

...Ready To Meet Banjul Hawks Of Gambia By Akanimo Kufre Recent class act and superlative performance of Akwa United Football Club has paid off with great a moral boosting deal. The team management led by Paul Bassey last Friday signed a multi-million naira sponsorship MOU deal with Dana Air which according to the club chairman…

Nigeria, 22 African Countries Launch Single Aviation Market

Twenty-three African states, including Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, have launched a single aviation market in a bid to boost connectivity, reduce fares and stimulate economic growth on a continent widely considered the most expensive and inconvenient to fly around, reports FT. Three decades after the concept was first proposed, the 55-member African Union on…

Domestic Airlines Record 3M Passengers In 6 Months

Domestic airlines in Nigeria lifted a total of 3,287,310 passengers in the first six months of this year, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The figure, however, represents a 21 per cent decrease, compared to the 4,193,862 passengers airlifted within the period last year. According to the Consumer Protection Directorate of the Nigerian Civil…

Venue Owners Tasked On Standards, Quality Delivery

By 'Dotun Akintomide Venue Owners in Nigeria have been charged to deliver on their mandate of providing quality service to venue users to deepen the sector's contribution to the socio-economic development of the country. The New Diplomat gathered this much at the 2017 Venue Owners' Summit organized in Lagos entitled "Venue Management: Harnessing The Business…

Tourism Key To Unlocking Nigeria’s Hospitality Potentials – CEO Fusion Group

By 'Dotun Akintomide With a dismissal 4.8% contribution to National Gross Domestic Product (Jumia Travels 2017), local and foreign experts advertently believed that the hospitality industry lags behind other sectors of the Nigerian economy amid several untapped potentials, notwithstanding the diversification effort of the incumbent administration to scale up activities. But for the Group Managing…

128 Nigerians Deported From Libya

No fewer than 128 Nigerians deported from Libya arrived in Lagos on Thursday aboard a chartered Airbus A320 Afriqiyah aircraft with registration number 5A-ONA The aircraft landed at 5.35p.m at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The deportees, comprising 126 male, two female, were flown back into the waiting hands of officers of the…

90% Of Travel Agents Are Unregistered, Says NANTA

The National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA), has disclosed that about 90 per cent of those parading themselves as traveling agents in Nigeria are unregistered with the body or any other recognised association anywhere in the world. According to the president of the association, Mr. Bankole Bernard, the unregistered agents, are numbering 6,000 across the…

Europe’s Generosity Motivates More Migrants To Leave Africa – Bill Gates

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has called on the European Union to reconsider its open-door policy of welcoming migrants as it motivates many more to leave Africa. He said this week during an interview with a German media that European countries should take measures to make it more difficult for migrants to leave Africa through the…

US Lifts Laptop Ban On Passengers Flying Etihad, Emirates and Turkish Airlines

The U.S. government has lifted the controversial laptop ban for flights to the U.S. for three major airlines. Effective immediately, Etihad Airways, Emirates Airline and Turkish Airlines have all been cleared to allow customers to bring electronic devices, including laptops, tablets and e-readers, on flights from the Middle East into the U.S.. That still leaves…

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