Air Nigeria Suspends Operations and Sacks Staff
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Air Nigeria Suspends Operations and Sacks Staff
Air Nigeria suspends operations, sacks staff
AIR Nigeria has announced the suspension of all its operations — local, regional and international — with effect from Monday, September10.
The suspension, according to the management of the airline, is due to staff disloyalty and environmental tension, “which are not conducive for business in the aviation sector."
The airline regretted any inconvenience the decision would cause its passengers on all the routes and advised them to contact agents from whom they had purchased tickets for refunds.
Reacting to the development, the chairman of the airline, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim, said it was difficult to continue further investment in the airline, with the level of disloyalty on the part of the staff and weak business environment.
“But we are strongly committed to ensuring that Air Nigeria survives,” he added.
He said about 50 loyal staff from various departments of the airline had been selected with a mandate to recommence business within 12 months, while other members of staff had been relieved of their employment, effective from the last day of work on their various routes.
Ibrahim thanked the stakeholders for their support in the last two years of the operation of Air Nigeria under the new management.
He said the suspension of all the operations of the airline was not unusual as, according to him, “corporations are like individuals who naturally will get sick and the usual thing to do is to admit them to hospitals, either for corporate surgery or for treatment, as the case may be.”
AIR Nigeria has announced the suspension of all its operations — local, regional and international — with effect from Monday, September10.
The suspension, according to the management of the airline, is due to staff disloyalty and environmental tension, “which are not conducive for business in the aviation sector."
The airline regretted any inconvenience the decision would cause its passengers on all the routes and advised them to contact agents from whom they had purchased tickets for refunds.
Reacting to the development, the chairman of the airline, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim, said it was difficult to continue further investment in the airline, with the level of disloyalty on the part of the staff and weak business environment.
“But we are strongly committed to ensuring that Air Nigeria survives,” he added.
He said about 50 loyal staff from various departments of the airline had been selected with a mandate to recommence business within 12 months, while other members of staff had been relieved of their employment, effective from the last day of work on their various routes.
Ibrahim thanked the stakeholders for their support in the last two years of the operation of Air Nigeria under the new management.
He said the suspension of all the operations of the airline was not unusual as, according to him, “corporations are like individuals who naturally will get sick and the usual thing to do is to admit them to hospitals, either for corporate surgery or for treatment, as the case may be.”
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The Mad Man Has Struck Again
No comment on staff salaries, pension deduction and cooperative deductions?
Only in Nigeria that a thief will commit daylight robbery and will not even be questioned talk of prosecution!
Only in Nigeria that a thief will commit daylight robbery and will not even be questioned talk of prosecution!
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This is interesting as going from this site, this sort of news should have been expected of Arik. I'm sure they will take advantage of the regional exit of a strong competitor, but ultimately I blame the govt. How I wish they would foster a true business climate in the aviation industry.
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Adieu Jimoh, don't let the door hit in in the rear
I knew this clown wouldn’t last the day he started making regular press releases and acting as know-it-all tycoon, eclipsing his Ethiopian MD and rubbishing professional PR. The day he invoked patriotism and national pride, when he was supposed to prepare a careful business plan. The day his Chief Accountant threw the towel and leaked serious doubts about AN’s fleet safety. He could have saved himself the embarrassment had he entrusted the show to a professional, international management and went home. I say good riddance. The exit of AN and Dana should be an opportunity for a sector-wide shake up. Anything associated with that damned name Virgin Nigeria was bound to fail. His grandiose “patriotic” plan to save Nigeria’s flag carrier and fly the Nigerian flag just didn’t see the light of the day. Someone needs to tell him that emotive nostalgia and theatrics don't put food on anyone’s table. It’s so 1980s. Review the economics and do your homework. Wet leasing A330s and launching LON and JNB while being cash-strapped, with workers not paid in months? Oh, and for God's sake quit whining about staff loyalty! You $#@#@@ on them, what did you expect.
Good luck to all former AN pilots and workers
Good luck to all former AN pilots and workers
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Anyone know who the local banks are that financed the two EMB190 aircraft?
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Air Nigeria Staff to Protest Sack Today
Indication emerged Thursday night that Air Nigeria workers, who were sacked earlier this week will today, take to the streets to protest against the shutting down of the airline by the company’s chairman, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim.
The protest, which was announced in a statement, would be peaceful, and will start by 8 a.m. at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Wing 2 in Lagos.
From there, the workers plan to march to the office of the Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority.
Ibrahim, the owner of the airline, had on Tuesday announced a one-year suspension of all activities of the airline and terminated the employment of all its staff, sparing only 50.
Both actions would take effect from September 10.
The staff have however decided to do battle with Ibrahim, and explained that he could not unilaterally sack all the staff on the pages of newspapers without following due process as contained in their employment contracts.
The aggrieved workers revealed Air Nigeria was owing them four months salary arrears, and added that pension and taxes deducted from workers salaries were not remitted to the relevant authorities.
The workers further alleged that Air Nigeria was owing the Air Nigeria Cooperative Society N56 million in members’ personal savings.
Speaking of the one-year suspension of activities, the staff noted that Ibrahim had made no plans for refunds to passengers who pre-ordered tickets.
“No plans have been put in place for all our passengers who have bought tickets to London who will be flying into and out of London from September10 onward,” the statement said.
“He wickedly wants to get them stranded without alternative plans or refunds.”
Indication emerged Thursday night that Air Nigeria workers, who were sacked earlier this week will today, take to the streets to protest against the shutting down of the airline by the company’s chairman, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim.
The protest, which was announced in a statement, would be peaceful, and will start by 8 a.m. at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Wing 2 in Lagos.
From there, the workers plan to march to the office of the Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority.
Ibrahim, the owner of the airline, had on Tuesday announced a one-year suspension of all activities of the airline and terminated the employment of all its staff, sparing only 50.
Both actions would take effect from September 10.
The staff have however decided to do battle with Ibrahim, and explained that he could not unilaterally sack all the staff on the pages of newspapers without following due process as contained in their employment contracts.
The aggrieved workers revealed Air Nigeria was owing them four months salary arrears, and added that pension and taxes deducted from workers salaries were not remitted to the relevant authorities.
The workers further alleged that Air Nigeria was owing the Air Nigeria Cooperative Society N56 million in members’ personal savings.
Speaking of the one-year suspension of activities, the staff noted that Ibrahim had made no plans for refunds to passengers who pre-ordered tickets.
“No plans have been put in place for all our passengers who have bought tickets to London who will be flying into and out of London from September10 onward,” the statement said.
“He wickedly wants to get them stranded without alternative plans or refunds.”
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Gatwick Airport, Air Nigeria Asks Passengers To Donate £40 Each To Buy Fuel
In a scandalous twist of events, SaharaReporters learned that an Air Nigeria crew at Gatwick Airport yesterday asked passengers to contribute £40 each to enable them purchase fuel to depart for Lagos several hours after the flight’s takeoff was delayed.
About 190 passengers on Flight LOS-VK 0292/08 said they were surprised by the request. They confronted the airline official who had made the request, and he quickly disappeared from the riotous scene.
The flight, which was scheduled to fly out of London at 9:50a.m, eventually did so at 5p.m., arriving in Lagos at 12:30a.m. But the ordeal of the passengers was hardly over.
A passenger, Lekan Fatodu told SaharaReporters that when they arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, they discovered their baggage had not arrived with them. They were left stranded for several hours before an official of the airline told them to return the next day for their luggage.
It was learned that the airline’s bag handling service, Swissport, refused to provide ground-handling services to the airline because Air Nigeria had not met its obligations to the company.
Air Nigeria’s embattled owner, Jimoh Ibrahim, last week announced the sacking of over 500 workers at the airline and suspension of all flight services starting from tomorrow, September 10.
Mr. Ibrahim claimed that his workers were disloyal to the company but the workers said during a street protest that Mr. Ibrahim was a bad manager who diverted funds given to the airline by the Nigerian government and is negligent in aircraft maintenance. The workers have not received salaries since April 2012.
Mr. John Nnorom, a former chief financial officer of the airline told SaharaTV yesterday that of the 11 aircraft in Air Nigeria's fleet, only one is serviceable. SaharaReporters learnt that most lessors have repossessed their aircrafts from Air Nigeria, leaving it with only four aircrafts.
Following the publication by SaharaReporters of a powerful petition by Mr. Nnorom detailing the troubles facing the ailing airline, Air Nigeria’s operations were suspended.
The petition appeared on June 4, one day after a Dana Air MD-83 aircraft crashed near the Lagos airport killing 159 people.
The international flights were operated through a wet lease arrangement between Egypt Air and AirNigeria.
In a scandalous twist of events, SaharaReporters learned that an Air Nigeria crew at Gatwick Airport yesterday asked passengers to contribute £40 each to enable them purchase fuel to depart for Lagos several hours after the flight’s takeoff was delayed.
About 190 passengers on Flight LOS-VK 0292/08 said they were surprised by the request. They confronted the airline official who had made the request, and he quickly disappeared from the riotous scene.
The flight, which was scheduled to fly out of London at 9:50a.m, eventually did so at 5p.m., arriving in Lagos at 12:30a.m. But the ordeal of the passengers was hardly over.
A passenger, Lekan Fatodu told SaharaReporters that when they arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, they discovered their baggage had not arrived with them. They were left stranded for several hours before an official of the airline told them to return the next day for their luggage.
It was learned that the airline’s bag handling service, Swissport, refused to provide ground-handling services to the airline because Air Nigeria had not met its obligations to the company.
Air Nigeria’s embattled owner, Jimoh Ibrahim, last week announced the sacking of over 500 workers at the airline and suspension of all flight services starting from tomorrow, September 10.
Mr. Ibrahim claimed that his workers were disloyal to the company but the workers said during a street protest that Mr. Ibrahim was a bad manager who diverted funds given to the airline by the Nigerian government and is negligent in aircraft maintenance. The workers have not received salaries since April 2012.
Mr. John Nnorom, a former chief financial officer of the airline told SaharaTV yesterday that of the 11 aircraft in Air Nigeria's fleet, only one is serviceable. SaharaReporters learnt that most lessors have repossessed their aircrafts from Air Nigeria, leaving it with only four aircrafts.
Following the publication by SaharaReporters of a powerful petition by Mr. Nnorom detailing the troubles facing the ailing airline, Air Nigeria’s operations were suspended.
The petition appeared on June 4, one day after a Dana Air MD-83 aircraft crashed near the Lagos airport killing 159 people.
The international flights were operated through a wet lease arrangement between Egypt Air and AirNigeria.
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Removal of Employees
A very harsh action to punish own employees. I wonder if the economic slow down was the reason for such move. Hope the retrenched employees get rehabiliated else where.
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"Economic slowdown" my arse. This has been a textbook Jimoh fleece job for a while now. Nigerians will again be forced to shake their heads and wonder at why they can't seem to get a respectable airline sector up and running, while Mr. Ibrahim et al. move on to their next target. Nothing to see here; move along.
