FG Postpones Resumption Of  International Flights To Sept 5

The Federal Government yesterday shifted the resumption date for the commencement of international flights into and out of Nigeria from August 29 , 2020 to September 5, 2020.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had announced on August 17, 2020, that international flights would resume on August 29, following pressures from the public for the resumption of the flights.
But at yesterday’s briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID – 19 in Abuja, the Director – General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Musa Nuhu, declared that international flights would not resume as earlier announced .
He said September 5, 2020, was picked as the new date for international flights resumption, stressing that there were still issues to be sorted out before allowing international carriers to operate into and out of Nigeria.
“Regret to announce that the international flight resumption earlier scheduled to resume on 29th August has been shifted to 5th September, 2020”, the Federal Ministry of Aviation also tweeted.
When Sirika last week Monday, announced that international flights into and out of Nigeria would resume on August 29 , the Presidential Task Force on COVID – 19 said that the date was not sacrosanct.