The Nigerian Government on Thursday shifted the resumption date of international flights in the country to September 5, 2020, from the earlier planned date of August 29, 2020.
At Thursday’s briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Musa Nuhu, declared that international flights would not resume as earlier announced.
Nuhu said the new date was chosen for the resumption of international flights because there still issues to be sorted out before flights could be allowed in and out of the country.
“Regret to announce that the international flight resumption earlier scheduled to resume on 29th August has been shifted to 5th September 2020,” the Federal Ministry of Aviation also tweeted.
Nigeria suspended international flights in March following outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had said on August 17 that international flights would resume in the first instance from two airports – Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
