An Arik Air aircraft operating from Benin Airport to Lagos Airport on Tuesday aborted take-off when the Pilot-in-Command observed an abnormality during the process. The Communication Manager of Arik Air, Mr Ola Adebanji, confirmed the incident in Lagos. Adebanji explained that the aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ900, was brought under control on the runway in the […]
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Former directors of Arik Air, through their lawyers have filed a N20 billion suit against the federal government and Ethiopian Airlines over recent claims of negotiating the takeover of the airline. The suit was instituted at the federal high court, Lagos, against Ethiopian Airlines, the federal ministry of transportation and the attorney general of the […]
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An aircraft owned by Ethiopian Airlines was the first to land at the reopened Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Abuja, on Tuesday. The aircraft touched down some minutes past 12pm. Ethiopian Airlines was the only foreign airline that made use of the Kaduna airport during the period that flights were diverted from Abuja. The Abuja […]
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The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, on Monday said Arik Air, under its previous management, owed the International Air Transport Association, IATA, $78 million (about N25 billion). Simon Tumba, Media Consultant to Arik Air, gave the figure while speaking with journalists in Lagos. The airline was on February 9 taken over by the Federal […]
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Arik Air has suspended its international flight operations to the London and Johannesburg routes. The spokesman of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, Jude Nwauzor, made the announcement in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that AMCON had on February 9 taken over the airline following its […]
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The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over Odengene Air-Shuttle Services, known more as OAS Helicopters in Lagos following a court order. It was the third aviation firm to be taken over by the bad bank in four months. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that AMCON had on Tuesday sealed the […]
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The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on Sunday said it had discovered deep rooted rot at embattled airline, Arik Air. AMCON said it would require over N10 billion to fix the rot before the largest local carrier could resume full and uninterrupted flight operations to its regular routes across the country and beyond The […]
Continue ReadingThe managements of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Arik Air Group have been given two weeks within which to resolve all issues relating to indebtedness between the respective organizations. Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika who gave the directive at a meeting with […]
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