This was revealed by Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, during the daily briefing on Wednesday.
“Tomorrow marks the last day for the enforcement of the closure of Nigeria’s airspace to flights. We have assessed the situation in the aviation industry and have come to the conclusion that given the facts available to us and based on the advice of experts, the ban on all flights will be extended for an additional four weeks,” he said.
“The Honourable Minister of Aviation will give you details during this briefing.”
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Nawa o, this is terrible, pilots are now broke, air hostesses too, it’s so unfair. They should fumigate the planes and practice social distancing by eliminating the middle seats, that’s what other countries are doing but because it will affect the elites the won’t do it
ReplyDeleteCan you listen to yourself. We are talking about life here and you are talking about being broke. Only people who are alive can afford to be broke.
DeleteOh my God
DeleteWish the Govt can assist even if is 50% salary of affected staff
Better!!! But wait oooo the big men are moving around in private jet and NAF aircraft. People are flying though with permission for clearance.
ReplyDeleteThis airspace restriction is selective
Obviously,what I heard this afternoon is not what I can type here,many families are taking off so I doubt the 'flying with permission' part. The wealthy are bolting away.
DeleteDon't mind them. Something fishy is going on,what are all these cars turning to face the international route looking for？ many planes in the sky.
God protect the innocent biko.
Thank you Xp.
DeleteAll the planes I see I'm wondering..
This country sha..smh!
Foolish government. You all brought this coro with your sluggish attitude. Wicked government.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need to close it because you will still allow people travel
God bless you yori! Medicine after death
DeleteThey should not open it o...not yet abeg.
ReplyDeleteAbeg oh. I need to see my man so they should open it biko.
DeleteYou need to see your man. Nigerians still see this virus as a joke.
DeleteOh well. We are already getting used to it. Not like there is any form of major traveling coming up any time soon. At the end of the day almost all the countries will open their airspaces at the same time, June-July.
ReplyDeletei believe so too
DeleteJust seeing a video of Gombe state Covid 19 patients protesting and I'm wondering if it's same Corona here in Italy that is in Nigeria. I'm just wondering.
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteLmao
Delete😂😂😂😂
DeleteLmao
DeleteMy brother told me about it 😒
I'm soo worried 😟
About the innocent citizens.
Do they really care about the economy? Locking up airspace for hoe many months now. Bunch of illiterates.
ReplyDeleteMost idiotic comment of the year. It’s more about health and safety than any economy. Takes an illiterate to call one a of bunch of yourself.
DeleteYou are the illiterate here. Ode
DeleteGod help us cos our jobs are our only source of income. This is the eight week of being off work for some of us in the Travel industry and the IATA Bsp is not even helping matter as we have not received a dime from the companies since the lockdown. Nawa oh
ReplyDeleteI understand your plight dear,our industry is the worst hit..
DeleteThe travel agency that I worked for retrenched everybody as they were having challenges with paying bsp, paying salaries while not making any money & receiving inflow at the moment...
I have 4years of experience in the travel industry & most travel agencies are bleeding at the moment...
Who knows when someone will get another job replacement??
Some days I wake up & the first thing that I do is to cuss China...
This is almost half of the year& we have more months to pay for their unapologetic incompetence...
Even if the airspace is opened tomorrow, most countries are not allowing not citizens or permanent residents into their countries.
ReplyDeleteWhat measures do they have in place for reopening?They are just following what are other countries are doing blindly without any plan.Expert my ass!Open the damn airport!!
ReplyDeleteYimu ×100.
ReplyDeleteMelancholy
God help us with this virus
ReplyDeleteThis was what federal government would have done lone time ago but nope they waited till Buhari's daughter landed before he announced lockdown. God will send thunder to all our evil leaders.
ReplyDeleteSometimes some of you make childish comments. Closing of airspace has nothing to do with Buhari’s daughter. Even if the airspace was closed in January, the so called Buhari’s daughter can still fly in and out of Nigeria with approved flight.
DeleteWhat you failed to realise is there were people in and outside Nigeria that needed to move around. You don’t just close down your airspace without proper planning. How about the economy, how about business, how about people?
FYI, the UK airspace remains open and has never been closed despite the high death rate.
bcos no where to land even if them move
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