Nigeria will begin the operation of a new national air carrier in the first quarter of 2022, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced Wednesday.
Mr Sirika said this while speaking to journalists after the Federal Executive Council presided by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja.
“In this 2021, we will try to do all the needful and probably we intend to start operations somewhere around first quarter 2022,” he said.
He said the emergence of COVID-19 delayed the conclusion of plans as well as the takeoff of the project which he said the federal government is still committed to.
He said the aviation ministry will submit a proposal to the council in two weeks.
Mr Sirika said the national carrier was expected to take off initially this year, as an economic necessity for the country with the size of the population, the vantage geographical location, and other natural factors.
“It is still in top gear, we are coming back to Council, hopefully within the next two weeks, to present the memo on the national carrier,” he said.
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