Ex President Goodluck Jonathan had 6 years in power and didn't think it necessary to have a National carrier,Obasanjo spent 8 years in Aso Rock and was not embarrassed a country like Nigeria did not have a National airline,Buhari is not even 3 months into his presidency,and already he has put a motion in place to get Nigeria a National airline...Hmmm..yet some people are still playing partisan politics rather than calling a spade a spade!
President Buhari met with top executives of the Ministry of Aviation led by the ministry's
permanent secretary, Binta Bello. At the meeting, President Buhari directed the ministry to start up the process for the establishment of a national carrier for Nigeria.
"The President is quite concerned about lack of national carrier for now and he has directed the ministry to look into the possibility of having a national carrier as soon as possible,” the Perm Sec told state house correspondents after the meeting.
For the first time in 70 years, Ghana will no longer manage Nigeria’s airspace. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate takeover of the country’s skies over the Gulf of Guinea from Ghana in West Africa, according to Nigerian newspapers.
After meeting with the Nigerian president Wednesday, aviation officials told journalists that Nigeria’s airspace was safe and other neighboring countries were also making arrangements to take over their airspaces from Ghana. “We have a directive by the president to start the process of securing the management of Nigerian airspace over the Gulf of Guinea, which Ghana has been maintaining since 1945, and there is a move on the ground by Togo and Republic of Benin to take over the management of their own airspace from Ghana,” Binta Bello, the permanent secretary for the aviation ministry, said in the capital Abuja.
“The President is quite concerned about lack of national carrier for now and he has directed the ministry to look into the possibility of having a national carrier as soon as possible,” Bello said Wednesday, according to Vanguard Newspapers.Buhari’s administration reportedly plans to revamp international airport terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugua and expand their capacity next year.“I am concerned about the enormous debt profile in the aviation sector,” the Nigerian president said Wednesday, according to THISDAY. “Our airports are the windows through which people see our country. Anybody coming into the country will likely come through the airports. If we cannot secure and maintain our infrastructure, it will reflect very badly on us.”
