President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Ministry of Aviation to look into the possibility of getting a national carrier soon for Nigeria.
The President made this known on Wednesday after he was briefed of activities of the ministry at the President Villa in Abuja.
Addressing State House correspondents after the meeting with the President, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation, Mrs Binta Bello, said Buhari has also ordered the ministry to start an immediate process of securing the management of the Nigerian airspace over the Gulf of Guinea from Ghana.
She said, “We have a directive by the President to start the process of securing the management of the 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 their own airspace from Ghana.”
Bello disclosed that, “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.”
