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April 20, 2026 No Responses

Customs Celebrates First Female Pilot With Multi-Engine Licence

The Nigeria Customs Service has celebrated Superintendent of Customs Nafisat Balogun, following her remarkable achievement of obtaining a commercial multi-engine pilot license in the United States of America.The ceremony, organised by the Nigeria Customs Technical Hangar Service, brought together senior...

December 8, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Customs Gets First Female Pilot

Nigeria Customs Gets First Female Pilot Deputy Superintendent of Customs, Olanike Nafisat Balogun has made history as the first female pilot in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Born in Kaduna and a native of Odo-Otin Local Government Area, Osun State,...

February 7, 2022 No Responses

Dana Air To Recruit More NigerianPilots

Dana Air has decorated a new captain on its Boeing 737 aircraft, Captain Andrew Igbe-Arase in Lagos; stating that the airline will continue to invest in training and re-training of pilots having commenced the recruitment of more qualified Nigeri...

July 21, 2021 No Responses

Buhari Applauds Airforce Pilot For Gallantry

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the gallant pilot of the Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet, Flt. Lt. Abayomi Dairo, who survived an air crash. Dairo had successfully ejected himself from an aircraft that came under “intense ground fire from bandits...

April 8, 2020 No Responses

Restrictions: Police Arrest Two Pilots

The Commissioner of Police in Rivers, Mr Mustapha Dandaura has confirmed the arrest of the pilot and co-pilot of Carveton Helicopters, who allegedly ferried unknown passengers into the State. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dandaura made this known.....

September 9, 2019 No Responses

British Airways Pilots Begin Strike

British Airways pilots have begun a two-day strike in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions. Tens of thousands of passengers have been told not to go to airports, and BA says most have made alternative arrangements. Both BA and...

August 24, 2019 No Responses

British Airways Pilots Announce Dates For Strike

British Airways pilots are to strike on 9, 10 and 27 September in a dispute over pay, the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) has said. The three-day strike – the first by BA pilots – could cause severe disruption, as...

August 1, 2019 No Responses

British Airways Pilots Set For Summer Strike

British Airways has lost an appeal aimed at halting planned strike action by its pilots. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) voted in favour of industrial action on 22 July, after three days of negotiations failed to resolve the dispute....

July 23, 2019 No Responses

British Airways Pilots Vote In Favour Of Strike

British Airways pilots have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, threatening a walkout over the key summer holiday period. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) said 93% of its members had voted in favour of...

May 31, 2019 No Responses

FAAN MD: Ethiopian Airlines’ Aborted Landing At Lagos Airport Normal

Wednesday’s aborted landing of Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 777-300 aircraft at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos was a normal safety procedure in the global aviation industry, the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Auth...

March 2, 2019 No Responses

20 Years After, South African Airways Pilot Resigns Over Fake Licence

A pilot has resigned from South African Airways (SAA) after flying for more than 20 years with a fake licence. SAA said it discovered William Chandler’s paperwork was forged after a “reportable incident” during a flight from South Africa to.....

November 30, 2018 No Responses

Drunk Pilot Jailed

A Japanese pilot has been jailed after being caught more than nine times over the alcohol limit as he prepared to fly a passenger jet from Heathrow airport. Judge Phillip Matthews condemned Katsutoshi Jitsukawa, 42, saying the prospect of him...

July 5, 2018 No Responses

Air Peace To Operate All-Female Flight

Air Peace all female flight has been scheduled to take full charge of the carrier’s four-sector flights on the Lagos-Abuja, Abuja-Owerri, Owerri-Abuja and Abuja-Lagos routes on Thursday this week (Today). The development is coming days after Air Peace gav...

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Dana Air: 90% of our pilots, co-pilots are Nigerians

Dana Air on Thursday said that 90 per cent of its pilots and co-pilots were Nigerians in line with the Executive Order on Local Content Procurement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the airline’s Director of Flight Operations,...