Airport Reporters

 Air Peace, Onyema Clinch Top Honours at NTTSE 2026   ....As Airlines Prepares For Landmark Regional Expansion West and Central Africa’s largest airline, Air Peace, has secured double recognition at the 9th National Tourism Transportation Summit & Expo (NTTSE) 2026, with the airline and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr Allen Onyema (CON), receiving prestigious awards for their contributions to aviation growth, regional connectivity and continental integration. The honours were presented at the Gala Night of the summit, held at the prestigious Banquet Hall of NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja, just days ahead of Air Peace’s planned launch of new regional routes connecting Lagos with Bamako, Conakry, Douala and Libreville. Air Peace received the Nigeria’s Largest Airline & Regional Expansion Leadership Award, while Dr Onyema was honoured with the Aviation Leadership & Continental Connectivity Award for his outstanding contributions to strengthening African a...

 Air Peace Hosts Travel Agency Forum .....Deepens  Partnerships For New Regional Routes  Ahead of the commencement of its new regional services to Bamako, Conakry, Douala and Libreville on  August 1, 2026, Air Peace, West and Central Africa's largest airline, recently hosted a Travel Agency Forum reaffirming its commitment to strengthening collaboration with the travel agency community and expanding regional connectivity across Africa. The forum brought together travel partners and industry stakeholders to showcase the airline's regional expansion plans, highlight new commercial opportunities, and deepen engagement with the travel trade ahead of the launch of the four new routes. Delivering the opening remarks, Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Nowel Ngala, underscored the strategic importance of the new regional routes, noting that they would improve connectivity across West and Central Africa, facilitate trade and tourism, and create greater opportunities for both pass...

  Aeronautical Engineers' Institute confers gold award on United Nigeria Airlines' boss ...Cites safety culture, rapid growth, capacity building       The Executive Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines (UNA), Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, has been conferred with a Gold Medal Award by the Institute of Nigerian Aeronautical Engineers (INAE). The award is in recognition of the airline's safety culture, capacity building and rapid growth despite a turbulent economic climate.   Presented by the National President  of INAE, Dr. Ebitei Charles at the International Conference Fellowship Conferment , in Lagos on Wednesday, the body said it is reserved for individuals whose work has significantly advanced the field of aeronautical engineering. INAE, a division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) regulated by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). It said Okonkwo was honoured for steering UNA’s rapid expansion in  five years since its inc...

  Aeronautical Engineers' Institute confers gold award on United Nigeria Airlines' boss ...Cites safety culture, rapid growth, capacity building       The Executive Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines (UNA), Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, has been conferred with a Gold Medal Award by the Institute of Nigerian Aeronautical Engineers (INAE). The award is in recognition of the airline's safety culture, capacity building and rapid growth despite a turbulent economic climate.   Presented by the National President  of INAE, Dr. Ebitei Charles at the International Conference Fellowship Conferment , in Lagos on Wednesday, the body said it is reserved for individuals whose work has significantly advanced the field of aeronautical engineering. INAE, a division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) regulated by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). It said Okonkwo was honoured for steering UNA’s rapid expansion in  five years since its inc...

 NDLEA EDO DISCOVERS 1,359KG OF CANNABIS IN A FOUR-BEDROOM FLAT AT ILLUSHI The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in a combined operation with men of the military army, successfully executed an intense intelligence-driven raid operation in the Illushi community, Esan South East Local Government Area.  The operation led to the discovery of a four-bedroom bungalow used as a cannabis warehouse located in a residential building area in the Illushi community, considered a cannabis hub. NDLEA Commander Mitchell Ofoyeju, PhD, said that a staggering seizure includes fifty-two giant bags, three gallons of cannabis seeds and a bag of cannabis seeds. The cannabis is one thousand, two hundred and seventy-three kilogrammes, (1,273kg) with eighty-six killogrammes (86kg) of cannabis seeds, totaling 1,359kg were recovered at the warehouse.  “During the raid on a four-bedroom bungalow that was being used as a warehouse for storing large quantities of th...

  Jedlof Foundation empowers widows, small businesses with grants, financial literacy  The Jedlof Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to empowering widows and small business owners through financial support, business training, and educational assistance, with beneficiaries sharing inspiring testimonies of transformed lives during the foundation's business empowerment outreach held on July 25, 2026. Speaking at the event, the Founder of the Jedlof Foundation, Dr. Mrs. Ebele Okoye, said the organization has remained committed to improving the lives of widows, vulnerable families, and children through business empowerment, payment of school fees, food support, and other humanitarian interventions since 2022. According to her, the foundation's latest outreach focused on equipping members with practical business management skills, financial literacy, health education, and biblical principles for sustainable entrepreneurship. Dr. Okoye encouraged participants to always put God ...

 A Runway Excursion Is Not a Crash:  What Aviation Owes the Travelling Public By Alexander Nwuba I have loved airplanes since I was a child. It is that love, long before any title or office, that brought me into aviation, and it is what still brings me to the airport.  So, I have never been able to run an airline from behind a desk. As CEO, I spent more time at the airport than in the office: standing in the terminal, watching passengers, watching their experience, their anxieties, their small frustrations, and sometimes stepping in personally.  One occasion has stayed with me for years. A crew, in a hurry to resolve a snag, informed passengers of a technical problem and then opened the engine cowling in full view of the cabin.  For more than thirty minutes the passengers sat watching engineers work inside an open engine. When the work was done, and the aircraft declared serviceable, the passengers refused to go. I do not blame them. Nobody had translated what t...