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The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has commended new Aviation and Aerospace Development Minister Festus Keyamo for further suspending the Nigeria Air (NWB, Lagos) project.

"AON continues to believe that it is not right to float a national carrier on the terms set out by the last aviation minister [Hadi Sirika], which would undermine, even destroy, the aviation sector in Nigeria with Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) waiting in the wings for a total takeover," the lobby group representing five private Nigerian carriers said in a statement. The AON pledged its "unalloyed support" to Keyamo's moves to reform the Nigerian aviation sector.

This followed reports by various Nigerian media outlets that Keyama, on August 31, said the creation of the national carrier remained on hold until he had had a chance to make a thorough assessment and brief President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. "A few months after Nigeria Air was launched with so much fanfare, using a borrowed airplane, it is now suspended. I owe it to the government and Nigerians to provide an...

Namibian court strikes off Menzies' bid to stay at Windhoek

The Namibian High Court has decisively rejected, with costs, an appeal by Menzies Aviation Namibia against its unexpected eviction on August 19, 2023, from Windhoek International, and subsequently removed the case from its docket.

High Court Judge Hannelie Prinsloo, on September 1, ruled the ground handler lacked any legal basis to demand the continuation of its ground handling services at the airport, nor did it have any legal entitlement to occupy premises owned by the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) at the airport, reported the Windhoek Observer.

Judge Prinsloo upheld the NAC's right to enforce prior judgments issued in June 2022 by the High Court and in June 2023 by the Supreme Court, which had resulted in Menzies Namibia's eviction from the airport premises. She declared the matter concluded and removed it from the court's agenda.

ch-aviation has reached out to both parties for comment.

In response to its eviction and subsequent replacement by Paragon Aviation Services, Menzies Namibia had initiated urgent legal proceedings in the Namibia High Court seeking a court order permitting it to...