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Q4 2019 meeting resolutions on 'Nigerian Aviation and Beyond 2025' urged updated national policy, agency coordination, airline alliances, less state involvement in airlines, airport concessions and measures against professional brain drain.

Closing Bell segment on Nigeria's national carrier plans in which ART's public relations officer argued Air Peace and other local airlines should ally to form larger carriers.

Analysis that airlines everywhere lean on state support; ASRTI's Olowo argued Nigerian aviation should be treated as an infant industry with cheaper finance as African skies open up.

Feature questioning whether government should both regulate and run Nigeria Air; Olowo said the group wants no state monopoly, and that the airline's board and management, not the minister, should decide operations and compete fairly.

Report of ASRTI's quarterly business breakfast where Harold Demuren, Nnamdi Udoh, AIB and NCAA voices debated cooperation between regulator and investigator on safety recommendations and their timeliness.

On Sirika's reappointment, Olowo said the second term leaves no room for rhetoric and urged measurable results on airport concessions, modern terminals and car parks, citing Ghana's progress.

Examines conflicting 2016–2018 traffic and revenue figures from agents, GDS firms, NCAA and IATA; ASRTI's president and secretary general called for reconciled data and government oversight of sector earnings.

BusinessDay's account of the same ART statement on the Osinbajo helicopter incident: relief at no fatalities, worries over crowd and fire risk, and criticism of hiring a foreign pilot when Nigerian pilots are available.

After the Kabba helicopter crash-landing carrying Vice President Osinbajo, the group questioned crowd control and landing preparations, objected to use of a foreign pilot, and said it would await the AIB report.