Azman resumes as passengers flock 8 flights
Exactly two months after suspension, Azman Air resumed operations on Sunday with a lot of passengers on board its eight flights, our reporter learnt.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) had on March 16 suspended the airline after observing n safety infractions on Azman’s Boeing 737 classics.
After an audit, the NCAA directed some corrective action plans (CAPs) for the airline, and based on satisfaction, the Authority lifted the suspension two weeks ago while the airline resumed flight operations yesterday.
The airline hit the sky on Sunday, operating eight flights on the Lagos-Kano route; Kano-Lagos; KanoAbuja; Abuja-Kano; Lagos-Abuja; AbujaLagos and MaiduguriAbuja and AbujaMaiduguri route.
It was learnt that most of the flights had about 90 percent load factor (near full booking) especially the LagosKano; Kano-Lagos flights which are some of the routes with the most traffic.
A spokesman of the airline, Mr. Aliyu Nura, yesterday told Daily Trust that apart from Abuja-Kano and AbujaMaiduguri flights that had 50 percent and 70 percent load factors, all other flights had over 90 percent booking.
He said two days after the airline’s website became active, most of the flights were booked.
“We received several calls before we opened. A lot of people were asking us, when are we opening? Immediately we opened our websites, most of the flights were fully booked,” he said.
He said it was a new beginning for the airline in servicing its passengers and providing them with exceptional flight experiences.
At least 200 youths in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State have graduated from a threemonth Youth ICT and Skill Acquisition Project (YISAP) of the Baywood Foundation.
The young people were trained on entrepreneurship/ vocational skills such as ICT, photography, video-editing, barbing, digital marketing, graphics design, confectionery, making of household essentials and consumables, fascinators, hats and other small scale enterprises.
The foundation, in January, 2021, got a $98,925 grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation to empower 600 youths in Enugu State.
The 200 trained youths are from Enugu West Senatorial Zone, while 200 youths will be trained in Igboeze North Council (Enugu North Senatorial Zone) and 200 youths of Enugu East Council (Enugu East Senatorial
Zone).
At least 100 exceptional youths will get a seed grant of N45,000 and N60,000 each from the 600 participants selected for the project.
In his remarks, the Country Director of Baywood, Mr Chukwudi Ojielo, said: “I challenge youths of Udi Area Council, especially our graduating youths, to stand tall and project their businesses to the world through the social media marketing skills they learnt from the training.”
He also said 33 out of the 200 graduating youths with outstanding performance would be given grants.
The Chairman of Udi Council, Chief Ifeanyi Agu, advised the graduating youths to put in their best and take advantage of the opportunity provided by what they had learnt.
A beneficiary, Mrs Anthonia Ugwu, encouraged her fellow youths to utilise the skills they had learnt to double their influence and income in life.