Business

Dana air unveils multi- million naira deal with Heartland FC

Ihesiulo Grace 16 January 2018 0

The partnership between Dana Air and the Imo State Government has started yielding benefits with the recent unveiling of a multi-million naira sponsorship deal with Heartland Football Club of Owerri, Imo state. The season-long sponsorship deal which is part of the airlines’ support to the

Business

Aero Contractors saves Nigeria over $90m capital flight for aircraft C-Check

Ihesiulo Grace 15 January 2018 0

Over $90 million will henceforth be saved as capital flight being spent on aircraft maintenance by the Nigerian airlines whenever they take their aircraft to foreign countries for maintenance. This has been made possible with the successful in-house maintenance checks conducted on a Boeing 737-500 plane in the fleet of Aero Contractors by its engineers. […]

Aviation News

Med-View to airlift 17,000 pilgrims back home in two weeks

Ihesiulo Grace 8 September 2017 0

Med-View Airline will on Sunday September 10 commence the airlift of over 17,000 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia back to Nigeria. Chief executive officer of the airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole who disclosed this yesterday assured that the return trips would be completed in two weeks. The airline airlifted pilgrims from Lagos, Oyo, Osun, Kaduna, Kwara, as […]

Tech

Volvo eyes new records for 2017 sales

Ihesiulo Grace 2 February 2017 0

Volvo Cars, the global premium mobility company, has expressed confidence that 2017 will be another great record year for it in terms of sales. The confidence of a great year ahead follows the sales record it broke in 2016 when it reported a third consecutive year of record sales, increasing 6.2 percent compared to 2015 […]

Tech

Hyundai Motors sells 4.86 million units worldwide

Ihesiulo Grace 2 February 2017 0

Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, has announced its 2016 business results. Sales volume and operating profit declined from the same period last year due to high production cost caused by series of labour strikes and continued economic stagnancies in emerging markets. Hyundai Motor Company’s global sales totalled 4,857,933 units (Korea: 656,526 /

Tech

Weststar to launch 4 Fiat models in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 2 February 2017 0

 As Mercedes‑AMG improves E‑Class quality Weststar Associates Limited, Nigeria’s official representative of Fiat Chrysler and authorized General Distributor of Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and RAM, has concluded arrangements to unveil four models of Fiat in the country by May 2017. Managing Director of the company, Mr Mirko Plath, disclosed the plan recently during

News

Bristow helicopters to acquire two aircraft, diversify into fixed wing operations

Ihesiulo Grace 1 February 2017 0

Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria), the largest helicopter operators in the country, is to acquire two more Embraer 145 aircraft to boost its newly launched scheduled flight operations in the country. The airline has also diversified into fixed-wing operations to provide services for affluent clients. The airline which commenced fixed-wing operations on December 5, 2016, is

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Daily Times Journalist clinches Reporter of the year award.

Ihesiulo Grace 31 January 2017 0

Daily Times aviation correspondent,  Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo  has won the best ‘Aviation Reporter’ of the year  award 2016 for Print. The awards which was organised  by the Nigerian Aviation Awards (NIGAV) took place at the Welcome Centre and Hotels in Lagos, was well attended  by aviation  stakeholders across the country. NIGAV awards is the most prestigious […]