Airlines Hike Airfares By 100% As Operating Costs Rise       The cost of air tickets along several routes have doubled due to the high demand for air travel in light of the rising insecurity in the country and cost of flight operations. Checks on several airline websites...

Fed Govt To Begin $195m Maritime Security Project Q1 2021       The federal government has disclosed that barring any unforeseen circumstance, the $195 million Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, also called the Deep Blue Project, which has suffered many delays will commence in the...

Refineries Gulped N81.41bn, Refined Zero Crude – NNPC       A total of N81.41bn was expended on Nigeria’s refineries between January and August this year but the facilities refined no drop of crude oil all through this period, latest data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

$500m Chinese Debt Sparks Confusion In Airport Concession       Federal Government’s plan to concession airports has run into difficulties over an existing debt and pact with China to build four new terminals at the cost of $500 million. The “concession within concession”, according to the coalition of...

We Won’t Join PENGASSAN Strike – NUPENG         The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has said it would not join the strike embarked on by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. National...

Reps Seek Indefinite Suspension Of Airports’ Concession         The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to suspend indefinitely the plan to concession airports until all issues have been addressed. The House Committee on Aviation, which criticised the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, for failing to...