Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has announced that domestic flights would resume in Nigeria next week Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
In a tweet on yesterday, Sirika said operations would resume at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe Airport in Abuja on July 8.
However, flights to Maiduguri, Kano, Port Harcourt and Owerri, will commence on Saturday, July 11th, 2020, while other airports will commence flight operations on Wednesday 15th July, 2020.
“I am glad to announce that Abuja & Lagos airports will resume domestic operations on the 8th of July, 2020. Kano, Port Harcourt, Owerri & Maiduguri to resume on the 11th. Other airports on the 15th. The date for international to be announced in due course. Bear with us,” he wrote.
Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation, announced at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 that held on Monday June 30th, 2020, that the federal government had approved that domestic flights resume in the country on a safe date.
Flights had been suspended in the country as part of movement restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
