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Leadership Tussle Hits NCMDCA
A faction of the National Council of Managing Directors of Customs Agents (NCMDCA) has been hit by leadership tussle 18 days after the former president of the body, Chief Festus Osaji Ejiofor, who died in July was buried. The late Ejiofor had issues with some leaders and interested parties in the association over the delay in conducting a fresh election to produce new management for the association. This time, however, the leadership tussle is between the Deputy President, Administration, Mr. Ben Ndee and some members of the board of council, led by Chief Raufu Ladipo. Ndee was said to have immediately assumed the leadership position in the NCMDCA, a development that was not pleasing to some of the board members and interested parties. A source told THISDAY that Ladipo had invited Ndee for a meeting which main agenda was to call him to order. He was said to have allegedly rebuffed the invitation, a development that angered the board who wrote a letter to the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN. In the letter which was aimed at hitting back at Ndee, the BOT Chairman, Ladipo told the council that nobody has been elected or chosen on acting capacity, adding that information regarding that would be communicated at the right time. A copy of the letter to the CRFFN was copied to the Minister of Transportation, customs controllers and other agencies of government in the ports.
Experts to Discuss Aviation at Akwaaba
With the dwindling fortunes of Nigeria’s aviation industry and the myriad of challenges facing both international and domestic operators in the country, the aviation sector would be put on the spot light at the 12th Akwaaba Aviation Day Conference on the 31st of October 2016. With the topic, ‘Aviation in Africa and Why Airlines Fail’, the 2nd Aviation Day at Akwaaba would draw on the experience of major players in Nigeria’s Aviation sector. The most Influential players in the industry between 1999 and 2010 would be sharing their experience at the event. A statement from the organisers of Akwaaba said leading the pack would be Richard Aisuebeogun, former Managing Director, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Overland Airways and ADC would be joined by other speakers to discuss and proffer solutions on how the sector could come out of its current dilemma. The former FAAN boss would be joined by other notable speakers such as, former Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren; former Managing Director of Virgin Nigeria, Captain Dapo Olumide; former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Edmund Yomi Jones and a search and rescue expert, Captain Mike Omokore. Others include Kenyan Female Aviator, Dorcas Aketch, formerly of Kenya Airways, Virgin Nigeria and lately Rwandair would be pointing the way out of the Miasma.
Cronos Launches Lagos-Doula Flights
Malabo-based leading carrier, Cronos Airlines has partnered a subsidiary of Nigeria’s Peacock Group, Peacock Aviation and Allied Services to open a new travel gateway-Lagos-DoulaMalabo flights. Business and pleasure travelers would have the opportunity to fly the new travel gateway, which will begin with grand and special inaugural and maiden flight on October 26. This would continue in an uninterrupted manner with a twiceweekly flights scheduled on Mondays and Wednesdays. The flights will connect passengers in a direct non-stop flight between Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, and Doula, the Capital of Cameroun and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea’s busy capital.According to the management of Cronos Airlines and Peacock, the airline is bringing to bear its upscale service by giving passengers the best of flight services.