Air transportation or air navigation remains the safest means or mode of travel in all countries of the world. Nigeria is not an exception. There is no controversy about that, and there should be no reason for one.Examining this mode of transportation in the above context shall be on several fronts such as comparative analysis to other modes of transport, accident rates compared, its fastness, comfortability, technology involved, regulatory roles involved in its operations, attractive returns on investment, etc.Looking at the available data from the Federal Road Safety Commission, Nigeria recorded 9,570 road accidents that claimed 5,421 lives in 2024, while road accidents increased in 2025 to 10,446, with deaths recorded from those crashes standing at 5,289. Those who suffered various degrees of injuries in 2024 were put at 31,154, while the injured in 2025 stood at 33,400.Within the period under review, Nigeria recorded zero fatal commercial air accidents resulting in zero fatalities. Nigerian Air Force training jet was, however, involved in a crash in Kaduna in 2024, and the two pilots involved survived, while an Air Peace passenger plane, a Boeing 737 carrying 127, skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in July 2025. All passengers and the flight crew were safely evacuated with no injuries or damage to the aircraft.To give us a current idea of what the road is claiming almost daily, a report was published in The Nation newspapers on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, under a headline: “32 die, 26 injured in Ogun, Kwara, Kogi road crashes”. These are the outcomes of three accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogbomosho-Okaolowo Road, and Okene-Osara-Lokoja Highway in Ogun, Kwara and Kogi, respectively. The report was credited to the State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Kabiru Kazeem.The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau is saddled with the mandate of conducting investigations into all the modal transportation in Nigeria and accordingly maintains the records of all incidents or accidents as the case may be.Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Examining this mode of transportation in the above context shall be on several fronts such as comparative analysis to other modes of transport, accident rates compared, its fastness, comfortability, technology involved, regulatory roles involved in its operations, attractive returns on investment, etc.Looking at the available data from the Federal Road Safety Commission, Nigeria recorded 9,570 road accidents that claimed 5,421 lives in 2024, while road accidents increased in 2025 to 10,446, with deaths recorded from those crashes standing at 5,289. Those who suffered various degrees of injuries in 2024 were put at 31,154, while the injured in 2025 stood at 33,400.Within the period under review, Nigeria recorded zero fatal commercial air accidents resulting in zero fatalities. Nigerian Air Force training jet was, however, involved in a crash in Kaduna in 2024, and the two pilots involved survived, while an Air Peace passenger plane, a Boeing 737 carrying 127, skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in July 2025. All passengers and the flight crew were safely evacuated with no injuries or damage to the aircraft.To give us a current idea of what the road is claiming almost daily, a report was published in The Nation newspapers on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, under a headline: “32 die, 26 injured in Ogun, Kwara, Kogi road crashes”. These are the outcomes of three accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogbomosho-Okaolowo Road, and Okene-Osara-Lokoja Highway in Ogun, Kwara and Kogi, respectively. The report was credited to the State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Kabiru Kazeem.The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau is saddled with the mandate of conducting investigations into all the modal transportation in Nigeria and accordingly maintains the records of all incidents or accidents as the case may be.Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Looking at the available data from the Federal Road Safety Commission, Nigeria recorded 9,570 road accidents that claimed 5,421 lives in 2024, while road accidents increased in 2025 to 10,446, with deaths recorded from those crashes standing at 5,289. Those who suffered various degrees of injuries in 2024 were put at 31,154, while the injured in 2025 stood at 33,400.Within the period under review, Nigeria recorded zero fatal commercial air accidents resulting in zero fatalities. Nigerian Air Force training jet was, however, involved in a crash in Kaduna in 2024, and the two pilots involved survived, while an Air Peace passenger plane, a Boeing 737 carrying 127, skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in July 2025. All passengers and the flight crew were safely evacuated with no injuries or damage to the aircraft.To give us a current idea of what the road is claiming almost daily, a report was published in The Nation newspapers on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, under a headline: “32 die, 26 injured in Ogun, Kwara, Kogi road crashes”. These are the outcomes of three accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogbomosho-Okaolowo Road, and Okene-Osara-Lokoja Highway in Ogun, Kwara and Kogi, respectively. The report was credited to the State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Kabiru Kazeem.The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau is saddled with the mandate of conducting investigations into all the modal transportation in Nigeria and accordingly maintains the records of all incidents or accidents as the case may be.Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Within the period under review, Nigeria recorded zero fatal commercial air accidents resulting in zero fatalities. Nigerian Air Force training jet was, however, involved in a crash in Kaduna in 2024, and the two pilots involved survived, while an Air Peace passenger plane, a Boeing 737 carrying 127, skidded off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport in July 2025. All passengers and the flight crew were safely evacuated with no injuries or damage to the aircraft.To give us a current idea of what the road is claiming almost daily, a report was published in The Nation newspapers on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, under a headline: “32 die, 26 injured in Ogun, Kwara, Kogi road crashes”. These are the outcomes of three accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogbomosho-Okaolowo Road, and Okene-Osara-Lokoja Highway in Ogun, Kwara and Kogi, respectively. The report was credited to the State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Kabiru Kazeem.The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau is saddled with the mandate of conducting investigations into all the modal transportation in Nigeria and accordingly maintains the records of all incidents or accidents as the case may be.Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority To give us a current idea of what the road is claiming almost daily, a report was published in The Nation newspapers on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, under a headline: “32 die, 26 injured in Ogun, Kwara, Kogi road crashes”. These are the outcomes of three accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogbomosho-Okaolowo Road, and Okene-Osara-Lokoja Highway in Ogun, Kwara and Kogi, respectively. The report was credited to the State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Kabiru Kazeem.The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau is saddled with the mandate of conducting investigations into all the modal transportation in Nigeria and accordingly maintains the records of all incidents or accidents as the case may be.Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau is saddled with the mandate of conducting investigations into all the modal transportation in Nigeria and accordingly maintains the records of all incidents or accidents as the case may be.Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Looking at the above facts about road and air travel in Nigeria, there is no doubt that air transportation is far ahead in safety.Related NewsEtihad Airways returns as Keyamo pushes expanded connectivitySurvivor recounts terrifying escape from Enugu Airplane incidentPeter Obi seeks probe of Enugu Air runway incidentOften, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Often, it has been observed that Analysts have not been able to separate people with natural fear or phobia for flying whenever analysing the safety of all modes of transport in Nigeria.Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Air travel remains the safest, most pleasurable and most comfortable mode of transportation. The ever-changing high technology involved is not comparable. It remains the only mode being carefully monitored and regulated all over the world.As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority As we have the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority with a statutory mandate to carry out oversight of aviation in this country, there is the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States; South Africa has its South African Civil Aviation Authority, and the same for the Saudi Arabian Civil Aviation Authority, and so it is with all countries that belong to the United Nations.Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Air travel’s capital outlay is one of the heaviest, and it covers aircraft acquisition, maintenance, insurance, fuelling and other overhead costs. High as it remains, its returns on investment are also attractive and come with a heavy toll.Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Going on a camel or bicycle may not be an option when it comes to journeys across states, some of which are far away from one another. Neither is it an option for travel across the Atlantic. No. The only and best option remains air transportation. Is expensive? Yes! Nothing good comes cheap.Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Adurogboye is a former General Manager of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority