Wole Oyebade

1 month ago | guardian.ng | Wole Oyebade

Nigeria has been ranked 105th happiest country in the latest World Happiness Report. The placement, among 147 countries sampled, drops three steps downwards from the 102nd position Nigeria finished 12 months ago. The latest ranking also left Nigeria in 12th position in Africa, with Mauritius, Libya, and Algeria as the top three happiest countries in the region. Finland retakes the top spot for the eighth successive year in a row.

1 month ago | guardian.ng | Wole Oyebade

Ministerial Task Force on Illegal Private Charter Operations has identified poor regulations and inadequate enforcement of standard guidelines on general aviation services. The committee, led by Captains Ado Sanusi and Roland Iyayi, fingered the same old loopholes of the Permit for Non-Commercial Flight (PNCF) system, inadequate oversight, and security vulnerabilities at major airports.

2 months ago | guardian.ng | Wole Oyebade

• June 12: ‘I was outflanked by more formidable forces against civilian rule’ • ‘Annulment was to save Abiola, Nigeria from another civil war’ • ‘Elected governors, corrupt politicians should as well take the blame for June 12 saga’ • Admission is an afterthought, Nigerians, activists react Contrary to the decades-old perception that General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) ushered in the era of a corrupt and moneybag political class, the accused has stated that cleansing the Augean stable to birth a...

2 months ago | guardian.ng | Wole Oyebade

It is a statutory administrative fee, NiDCOM, NIS sayNigerian passport applicants in the United Kingdom are miffed over the mandatory £20 (about N40,000) postal order charge that accompanies each application at the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) office in London. In the case of a lost passport, the mandatory postal order is £150 (about N300,000) per applicant – being an additional fee to an average of £242 currently paid for passport processing in the UK.

2 months ago | guardian.ng | Wole Oyebade

Founder of United Nigeria Airlines, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo,as again bemoaned the era of multiple charges, describing it as an albatross on the survival of indigenous carriers. Okonkwo, at the fourth anniversary of the domestic carrier, said the lingering burden has continued to overshadow positive impacts of the government’s support for the air transport sector.