NCAA reports N257m passenger refunds, N6m spent on hotels

By Dickson Omobola

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has disclosed that airlines refunded N257 cardinal to passengers betwixt January and July 2025, compared to N108 cardinal during the aforesaid play successful 2024 and N32 cardinal successful 2023.

NCAA besides revealed that a full of N6,083,229 was spent connected edifice accommodation for stranded passengers wrong the archetypal 7 months of 2025.

According to the agency, verified records showed that the hotels utilized for specified accommodation included Cocos Hotel, Grand Cubana Hotel (Abuja), NOCY Castle Hotel, Kim Royal Hotel, JC42 Apartment (Asaba), and Mayor & Diplomat Hotel (Lagos).

NCAA stated that these “figures supra amusement that determination is simply a singular betterment successful compliance with Part 19 of the NCAA Regulations 2023.”

Also speaking connected the improvement connected X, Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection astatine the NCAA, Mr Michael Achimugu, said: “These figures chopped crossed astir of the airlines. This is 1 of our proudest achievements, knowing that mode much passengers are being protected present than ever before, successful the 25-year past of the NCAA.

“In the aforesaid vein, we indispensable besides support hose unit and compartment unit against each signifier of unit and assault. May information proceed to beryllium the instauration of the manufacture arsenic we turn towards the attainment of satellite people work crossed the board.”

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