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The Federal Government has said that Emirates Airline will soon resume its flight operations in and out of Nigeria as the outcome of its ongoing discussion with the government will be made public within the next 48 hours.
This is coming after a report emerged a few days ago saying that the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had refused to approve the resumption of flight operations to Lagos and Abuja for Emirates Airline due to the insistence of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that only the Middle East airline would be allowed to operate to Dubai from Nigeria.
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This disclosure was made by the Director-General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Musa Nuhu, while speaking at the national briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on Covid-19 in Abuja.
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Nuhu said, “As regards the issue of Emirates Airline’s resumption of flights to Nigeria, the PSC deliberated extensively on this matter and the gap has been significantly closed between the position of Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).”
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What you should know about Emirates Airline flight suspension in Nigeria
It can be recalled that the Federal Government had directed the immediate suspension of outbound flights of Emirates Airline for 72 hours with effect from February 4, until when the needed infrastructure and logistics were put in place for the Rapid Antigen Test (RDT) test by the Nigerian Government.
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This followed accusations against the airline, that it was airlifting passengers from Nigeria using RDT done in laboratories that were not approved by regulatory authorities.
The Federal Government had, in March 2021, banned the airline from operating in the country over its continuous refusal to fly passengers without a pre-boarding rapid diagnostic test (RDTs).
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48 hours is obviously over..
What next
Pls sir honorable minister of Aviation help your fellow Nigerian indigines to open flight from Nigeria to UAE, all of us had spent so much money for this travel and the money is about going down the drain help us we are down on our knees in fact some have already wasted pls help us sir
Please what is the latest news on Nigeria Dubai flight Ban is more than 48 hrs now Please I need an update
48 hours has turned to 48 months this is not fair o, those that have resident that has been in nigeria since January will stand the risk of loosing their resident….please you guys should do something about this,
I heard there will resume on 9th july
please what is the update of full operational resumption on Nigeria Dubai Flight
What’s the latest news about this na??
Please sir when is EMIRATES resuming flight from Nigeria ???? or aren’t they resuming throughout this year again.. this is fustrating ???
Please what’s the update right now, Nigeria should allow flight to move from Nigeria to Dubai for God sake what’s going for the past how many weeks, please they should open it this week
Is better they conclude that today
any update on the flight to/from Nigeria?
What is the latest on Dubai flight resumption
Is this a country ,stop wickeding nigerians that base in there
Any update about the flight resumption?
I think Nigeria’s are moving through contouno
You can travel from Cameroon or ghana
That’s stressful
Please sir help your people by opening the airline sir.
Any update about the light?
Any update about the flight resumption?
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