Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The privately-owned airline 'Air Nigeria', which was grounded for safety checks by the regulatory Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Monday, has been cleared to fly again, NCAA spokesman Sam Adurogboye said Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The entire fleet of Air Nigeria, one of the country's thriving indigenous airlines, has been grounded to allow the regulatory Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to audit the Nigeria flag carrier, the local media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Rabat Morocco, (PANA) - Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, Bombardier Aerospace, has applied to the Moroccan authorities to build a plant in the free zone enclave in Casablanca. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s Transport Ministry said Monday a panel has been set up to investigate the death of Interior Minister George Saitoti, his deputy Orwa Ojode, and four Police officers in a helicopter crash near the capital, Nairobi, on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON) has slammed the federal government for suspending the operations of one of its members, DANA Air, following Sunday's crash of its MD-83 plane that killed all 153 on board and six others on the ground. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Rescue workers have ended the recovery process at the scene of Sunday's crash of a Nigerian passenger plane at Iju, on the outskirts of the commercial city of Lagos, after recovering 153 bodies and several human body parts at the end of work Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Flights resumed on Tuesday evening at Tripoli airport after govermment forces regained control from an armed group that attacked it and suspended operations on Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's aviation authorities have suspended the operating license of Dana Airlines, following Sunday's crash of one of its planes that left all 153 people on board dead and killed six more on the ground, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Six people died in the main building into which the Nigerian passenger plane crashed on the outskirts of the commercial city of Lagos on Sunday, the General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Services (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Osanyintolu, said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The grim work of recovering the bodies of those who died in Sunday's plane crash in Nigeria continued Tuesday, as rescue workers converged on the scene at Iju, on the outskirts of the commercial city of Lagos, for the third day running. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) says it is willing to help with investigations into the crash of a Nigerian cargo plane at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on Saturday night. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 139 bodies have been recovered from the site of the crashed Nigerian passenger plane on the outskirts of the commercial city of Lagos as at Monday, the second day of rescue operations at the site, according to the Director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Dr. Alexandra Bankole Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 'Black Box' of the Nigerian passenger jet that crashed on Sunday on the outskirts of the commercial city of Lagos, killing over 150 people, has been found, rescue officials said Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A staff of Nigeria's local DANA Airlines has said the airlines' MD 83 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Lagos on Sunday, killing over 150 people, was pressed into operation by the airlines' management even though it was not in good shape. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian civil society group Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to the anti-graft Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) urging it to probe alleged corruption in the country's transport sector, following Sunday's plane crash that killed over 150 people. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The official manifest of the McDonnel Douglas MD-83 plane that crashed in Nigeria on Sunday has shown that there were 146 passengers on board, seven less than the number given by aviation officials. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Aviation Minister Stella Oduah has said there are no survivors so far from the passenger plane that crashed on the outskirts of the country's commercial city of Lagos on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the DANA Air plane that crashed Sunday on the outskirts of Lagos, the nation's economic capital city. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - All the 153 passengers and crew aboard a passenger jet operated by Nigeria's local DANA Air are feared to have died when the plane crashed into residential buildings at Iju, on the outskirts of the economic capital city of Lagos, on Sunday, the local African Independent Television (AIT) reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A passenger plane operated by local airline DANA Air, on a scheduled flight from Nigeria's capital city of Abuja to the economic capital city of Lagos, is feared to have crashed in Iju, on the outskirts of Lagos, on Sunday, aviation sources and eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Finance Minister Ken Lipenga, has said no decision has been made yet on what to do with Malawi's controversial presidential jet. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Transport minister, Alhaji Collins Dauda, on Sunday inaugurated a five-member Committee to look into circumstances leading to an accident involving a Boeing 727-200 cargo plane on Saturday night.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Investigations are expected to commence immediately on the cause of Saturday night's accident involving a Nigerian Cargo plane at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra that led to the death of 10 people in a bus. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Turkish airline on Wednesday inaugurated its flights to Rwanda with a Boeing 747-800 from Istanbul. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have signed a technical assistance agreement under which the agency will acquire material for air traffic management at the cost of FCFA 25 billion (US$50 million). Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The national carrier Rwandair Express announced Friday the launch of direct flights to Johannesburg starting 10 June. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The bomb scare at Nigeria's main gateway Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday night was a hoax, the country's aviation authorities have said. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - National carrier Eritrean Airlines has launched its Cape Town route, PANA reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's aviation authorities have said they will not implement their decision to ban foreign airlines operating in Nigeria, but has yet to stop alleged disparity in air fares, until the outcome of the probe by the Senate. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Air Nigeria, a privately-owned Nigerian flag carrier, is due to resume its flights on the lucrative Lagos-London route soon, according to spokesman Sam Ogbogoro. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Agency for Air Traffic Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) and the government of South Sudan on Wednesday signed a partnership and assistance agreement in Juba, the South Sudan capital, in the field of air safety. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Domestic airlines in Nigeria may hike their fares following an increase in the price of aviation fuel, called JET A1. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the 30-day ultimatum issued to foreign airlines plying the Nigerian route to end their fare disparity or risk a ban approaches, Nigerian aviation officials have ratcheted up their rhetoric, saying they are ready to fight to the end to stop fare disparity. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two foreign airlines at the weekend successfully participated in Nigeria's test-run of a new approach, in its attempt to migrate from terrestrial air navigation to a satellite-based navigation system, known as Performance-Based Navigation (PBN), the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has repeated its 30-day ultimatum to foreign airlines flying the Nigerian route to end their fare disparity or face a ban. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - An Air Tanzania plane crashed early Monday while taking off from a domestic airport in Kigoma, in the Western port town on Lake Tanganyika, but there was no fatality, according to official reports. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – The head of the Moroccan government, Abdelilah Benkirane, has expressed his country’s willingness and determination to be a platform for aircraft industry sub-contracting on a continental scale. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian parliamentarians have expressed their support for the government's ultimatum to foreign airlines to end the discriminatory fares they charge on the Nigerian route or quit. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has granted US$322,560 to the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to help create design documents for the construction of the Air Traffic Control Centre at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola's national carrier TAAG and US aerospace and defence corporation Boeing have signed a US$600 million agreement for the purchase of three brand new aircraft. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – DR Congo's private airline, Korongo Airlines, financed by Brussels Airlines and the Belgian industrial group Forrest International (GFI), will take off on 16 April with domestic flights, a statement from the airline made available to the press on Wednesday said in Brussels. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The British Government has vowed to retaliate in kind if Nigeria makes good its threat to ban British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic (VA), among others, over discriminatory fares which Nigerians are being made to pay. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has given all foreign airlines operating in the country a 30-day ultimatum to end the discriminatory practice that sees Nigerian passengers paying higher fares than other passengers in West Africa. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzanian and foreign aviation experts on Wednesday began a two-day meeting here aimed at recommending measures that will enable this East African country to revamp its aviation industry. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - All in-bound flights were diverted to other airports while flights scheduled to take off were cancelled on Tuesday night after a power surge damaged the Air Field Lighting (AFL), including taxi and runway lights, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Cape Town International Airport has been awarded the Best Airport in Africa by the Airports Council International (ACI) in the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) global awards. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's wholly-owned largest airline Arik Air has resumed flights to South Africa, a day after it announced the suspension of its flights along the lucrative Lagos-Johannesburg route over a Yellow Fever vaccination documentation row. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's largest airline, Arik Air, has suspended its flights to South Africa, after 50 of its passengers were deported back to Nigeria on Friday for alleged failure to provide genuine yellow fever vaccination documentation. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian airlines, Air Mauritius, on Tuesday announced losses of up to 20.9 million euros for the first nine months of the current financial year, as against profits amounting to 5.3 million euros for the first nine months of the preceding year. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A judicial appeal panel has set aside the US$235 million fines slammed on two British Airlines for allegedly colluding to fix prices and engage in other unethical practices. Full text...