FG totally committed to establishment of national carrier – Sirika vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika today disclosed that transaction advisers for the establishment of the country’s national carrier, Nigeria Air, have submitted their findings to the federal government for requisite action.
“Well, to tell you, the second runway project is in the budget and it will be procured by God’s grace. The national carrier is in the pipeline and in the next one hour, I will be meeting with the transaction advisers. They are in town and they have concluded their baseline studies and we are moving to the next stage. So that is also on course.”
He continued: “On the issue of communication, I want to say that what we have in the country is being improved upon and not only that, it is being improved and very soon, all of that will be history. A lot has been approved to improve the communications and radar capability of our country’s air space.“And I’m sure that we have improved on our performance-based navigation system. However, I will just say that airlines need to up their equipment and personnel.
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