The federal government is considering the possibility of restricting flights from countries affected by the Ebola virus as part of renewed efforts to prevent any outbreak in Nigeria. This was disclosed on Thursday by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, after a high-level strategic meeting held in Victoria Island, Lagos State, to…
SpaceX has officially flown its upgraded Starship V3 vehicle for the first time, executing a high-stakes test flight from its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The launch followed a 24-hour scrub on Thursday evening, May 21, when a mechanical issue, specifically a hydraulic pin holding the launch tower’s mechanical arm, failed to retract in…
An Air France flight bound for Detroit was redirected to Canada after a passenger from Congo boarded “in error” amid the Ebola outbreak in central Africa, officials said Wednesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said the agency took…
Another one of 17 Americans flown home has mild symptoms, the US health department says.
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The airline said the Academy Award was safely in its care in Frankfurt and was arranging its return.
Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has called for urgent and unified action to transform Africa’s aviation sector, insisting that the region must become self-sustaining in aircraft maintenance to curb current capital flight from the continent. Speaking at the 2026 Ethiopian Aviation Forum in Addis Ababa, Keyamo commended Ethiopian Airlines and described…
A very empty Dubai Airport immigration Emma Graham, CNBC I flew from Mumbai to Dubai on an Emirates repatriation flight, one of several running over the last 24 hours and one of the first flights back into the country since the U.S. and Israel struck Iran over the weekend. Most flights to and from the…
Microsoft South Africa and the public broadcaster, the SABC, have signed an agreement that will see AI and digitals skills programmes flighted on the SABC Plus streaming platform. The announcement was made during the Johannesburg leg of the Microsoft AI Tour 2026 on Thursday. “We have a responsibility as corporates – all of us –…
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path, according to a recording of the pilot’s conversation with air traffic control. “We almost had a midair collision up…
