[size=16pt]FirstNation To Resume Flight Operations Sept 15[/size]
By Ebriku John Friday

— Sep 5, 2016 1:07 pm | Leave a comment
FirstNation Airways has said it will resume normal flight operations by September 15 and assured its traveling passengers of better and improved services.
The Head, Corporate Affairs of the airline, Mr Rasheed Yusuff, who stated this in a statement, said that the carrier’s current fleet was undergoing engine maintenance for safety operations, in line with global practice in the industry.

It denied reports that the company was on the verge of folding up, stressing that taking aircraft out for maintenance was not the same as winding up operations.

“FirstNation is not on the verge of folding up. In reality, since the airline launched services in 2011, the airline has built a strong followership and has been rated consistently as market leader on safety and schedule integrity.



“This reputation was reinforced by Firstnation’s achievement of International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification, which is the airline industry global bench mark for world class safety standard in record time of 12 months,” it added.

The statement further stressed that the award of IOSA certification, within 12 months of application by FirstNation remains unrivalled in West and Central Africa.

It noted that this international attestation of FirstNation’s safety and operational standard, was contrary to the false and damaging impression that the media attempted to paint in the publications of Sept. 1.

The statement emphasised that the planned maintenance was orderly arranged with advance notification to passengers.

It stressed that service would be reinstated on or before September 15, 2016.

“We are working to grow the fleet as well. All our aircraft have recently undergone C-Check and returned contrary to the blatant lies contained in the said publication.

NgeneUkwenu:
Another bad News for the IPOB Yoots...

NgeneUkwenu:
Another bad News for the IPOB Yoots...

todayboy:
Buhari Don star Nigeria money give tinubu to bail out first nation

Nigerians are suffering buhari is giving buhari loan without interest

Buhari just pay some money for using first nation for campaign

free2ryhme:
Tinubu owns First Nation

Others are not good to fail but Tinubu gets dollar abi

todayboy:
Buhari Don star Nigeria money give tinubu to bail out first nation

Nigerians are suffering buhari is giving buhari loan without interest

Buhari just pay some money for using first nation for campaign

NgeneUkwenu:
Another bad News for the IPOB Yoots...

NgeneUkwenu:
Another bad News for the IPOB Yoots...

runsboy:
Really? Tinubu owns an airline? Wow! This man is really a stakeholder in this business called Nigeria

I remain grateful to Gbenga Daniel – Tinubu dismisses rift rumors







A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has cleared the air on the alleged enmity between him and a former two-term Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

Tinubu, who spoke through Mr. Wale Edun at the 25th anniversary celebration of Otunba Gbenga Daniels’ Kresta Laurel, said there is no truth in the stories that he has been fighting with Gbenga Daniel, adding that they are still good friends.

Edun said: “I am here representing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and my presence is to show that there is no friction between Asiwaju and Otunba Gbenga Daniel”


Mr. Edun went on to explain that whenever Tinubu drives past the Kresta Laurel building in Maryland, Lagos, he remembers the enormous contributions Daniel made to the take off of his administration in 1999 and was immensely grateful.

He revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain was very gracious to donate the Kresta Laurel building to Tinubu’s campaign team at the time it was just being completed.

“The Daniels also made a section of their home available to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu whenever he worked too late and could not go home. After the election, he also allowed us to use it for the Transition Committee where he was a member”


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NgeneUkwenu:
Another bad News for the IPOB Yoots...

Larryfest:
Where is Nigerian airways na I mean how hard is it for a country as big as this to own a national carrier?

GMB‬ Speech While Addressing Nigeria Community In The United Kingdom.


I Will Maintain a modest lifestyle as President -Muhammadu Buhari.

“One of the major killers of our economy apart from corruption is waste. Our scarce resources are being plundered away very carelessly and unnecessarily wasted. Let me give an instance, presently, there are more than 6 aircraft in the presidential fleet. What do you call that? Billions of naira is budgeted every year for the maintenance of these aircraft not to talk of operational cost and other expenses.

You may want to ask what a Nigerian President is doing with so many aircraft when a Prime Minister of Britain fly around using the same public aircraft like an ordinary Briton.

Go and check and compare with that of any developed country in the world, the office of the Nigerian President is a very expensive one inspite our high level of poverty, lack and joblessness. Despite all these, you still find a Nigerian Minister spending about N10billion to charter an aircraft for just one year. Now, for me, when we come into office, all these waste will be blocked and properly channelled into our economy. We intend for instance, to bring back our National carrier, the Nigerian airways. [size=14pt]We shall do this by bringing all the aircraft in the presidential fleet into the Nigerian airways[/size] and within a year increase the fleet into about 20.


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