The Nigerian government has announced dates for the resumption of international flights at the Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu airports.
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made the announcement during the weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday.
He said, “We will be opening Enugu airport on the 3rd of May 2021, Kano on the 5th of April, 2021 and Port Harcourt on the 15th of April, 2021 for international flights.”
In March 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the suspension of international flights to limit the spread of the virus and halt imported cases. Later, the Federal Government approved the reopening of international flights in Lagos and Abuja airports.
The aviation minister said there had been calls for the government to reopen the airports for international flight operations.
“It takes a tremendous amount of work, appropriation in the management of this virus to be able to open departure and other areas of entry.
“We will do only at a time what will be good for the management of this virus, it is very painful especially for us in civil aviation to have our airports closed and our direct source of income affected as we are finding it extremely difficult to pay salaries,” he said.
