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Hadi Sirika
No controversial Boeing 737 Max in Nigeria, govt clarifies
The Minister of State (Aviation), Hadi Sirika, yesterday assured the flying public that the nation does not have any Boeing 737 Max on its register to warrant alarm.
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Minister decries voter apathy, advocates stiffer penalty for electoral offenders
Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has frowned at the low turn-out of voters during the Saturday’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Katsina State.
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Nobody will intimidate voters, assures Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to come out massively and vote for the candidates of their choice in today’s presidential election, assuring that nobody will intimidate them.
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Voters, candidates stranded as airlines cancel flights
Many voters and candidates alike in the eastern and northern parts of the country were yesterday stranded as airlines cancelled flights over poor visibility occasioned by an intensive harmattan haze.
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France-bound passengers stranded in Lagos after engine failure
Hundreds of Air France passengers in Nigeria have been stranded after a Paris-bound flight reportedly experienced engine failure. Olusegun Paul, one of the passengers, said the flight was supposed to
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N4.5bn NCAT firefighting simulator ready soon –Minister
Uche Usim, Abuja The Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has disclosed that a N4.5 billion firefighting simulator currently being installed at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) was nearing completion. He said once operational, the facility would save the Federal Government millions of naira spent annually on training fire officers of the Federal […]
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2018 scorecard: Aviation sector sustains zero accident record
Louis Ibah The high points Globally, the success of any country’s civil aviation sector is benchmarked on the safety of its operations, particularly of commercial passenger flights plying domestic and international routes. In 2018, the Nigerian aviation sector closed the year with a zero air crash incident. It would be the fifth year the country […]
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New Abuja Airport terminal ‘ll boost economic growth – Buhari
Uche Usim , Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has described the newly-completed terminal building at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, as a fulcrum on which Nigeria’s new economic frontier would revolve. This is as the Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika seeks the release of a second tranche of $69.3 million government’s […]
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Senate stops EFCC nominations for excluding Southeast, Southsouth
The Senate yesterday refused to confirm four nominees picked by President Muhammadu Buhari on the ground that the south-south and south-east regions…
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