By Chinenye Festus:-
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja announced that international flight operations in Nigeria will resume on August 29.
He thanked Nigerians for their patience while the ban on international flights was enforced and gave an assurance that the protocols and procedures for resumption would be announced in due course.
According to the minister, the resumption will commence on Saturday next week at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
He also explained that the procedure for the resumption of international flights in the country would be similar to that of the domestic flight resumption.
The announcement on flight resumption was found on his official Twitter handle and it reads :