Yusuf Babalola

Air Peace has admitted widespread flight disruptions that have left passengers facing delays, cancellations and disrupted travel plans, blaming the situation on a combination of a bird strike, adverse weather, technical issues and delays in aviation fuel availability.

Former Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, has intensified his agricultural empowerment drive in Nasarawa North Senatorial District, donating farm equipment to farmers and promising to promote mechanised farming if elected governor in 2027.

Some Nigerian air travellers could face flight cancellations, delays and possible grounding of operations as ground handling companies have threatened to withdraw services from two major domestic airlines over outstanding debts running into significant sums.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 108 sophisticated security drones, 7.6 tonnes of cannabis and 169,998 bottles of codeine syrup concealed in containers at the Apapa Area Command, with the total duty-paid value of the seizures put at N43.59 billion.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) has charged human resource professionals to combine competence, character and service in delivering measurable impact to their organisations, ministries and communities.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated N7.281 trillion revenue in 2025, representing a 19 per cent increase over the N6.1 trillion collected in the previous year, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has said.

Nigerian airlines are operating under severe financial pressure, with no indigenous carrier making $1 million in annual profit, as taxes, levies, high interest rates, and aviation fuel costs consume a significant portion of their operating income, the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has said.

The chairman and chief executive officer of Air Peace Limited, Dr Allen Onyema, has expressed confidence that Nigeria's negative ranking by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as the worst place in the world to establish an airline business will change once President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is properly briefed on the factors responsible for the situation.

Nigeria and Benin Republic are moving to bridge the systems gap between their Customs administrations, with plans to establish a real-time data exchange arrangement that will enable both countries to share declarations, manifests, transit information, risk profiles and enforcement alerts seamlessly.

The special adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, has said Nigeria's port modernisation efforts must ultimately deliver lower cargo-handling costs, faster vessel turnaround and improved export capacity.