Mshelia chairs LAAC 25th Confab as Onyema, Bankole, others grace occasion

Renowned aviation trainer and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WestLink Airlines, Ibrahim Mshelia will chair the 24th League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) scheduled to hold on the 28th of July, 2021 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

Also CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, the managing director of Medview Airline, Muneer Bankole and other dignitaries have indicated interest to grace the occasion.

Dung Pam, chairman, Governing Council, Nigeria Aviation Safety Initiative (NASI); Chairman, Association of Aviation Ground Handlers (ACHAN), Olaniyi Adigun and general manager, Total Nigeria Plc, Rabiu Abdulmutalib will also deliver papers at the LAAC conference.

Already, major stakeholders in Nigeria’s aviation industry are keying into the Conference with the theme: ‘Nigeria Aviation Industry: Management, Policy and Regulation.’

While the Ministry of Aviation has indicated interest to be part of the event, all the aviation agencies, including: Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N), Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria and Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) have equally expressed their desire to be fully involved in the whole arrangements.

The 25th Conference and Awards 2021 is expected to be attended by over 250 aviation industry professionals; physically and virtually, cutting across the aviation agencies, security agencies, international and domestic airlines operating in Nigeria, aviation support services, travel trade sellers and buyers and captains of the aviation industry in Nigeria.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.