President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has ordered actions to redress the debt burden that is weighing down Nigeria’s aviation sector.

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President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has ordered actions to redress the debt burden that is weighing down Nigeria’s aviation sector. President BUHARI said the Federal Government needed to do something quickly to guarantee safety, security and international respectability of the aviation industry in Nigeria. He said Nigeria’s airports are the windows through which the outside world sees the country. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA, said in a statement that the directive by the President came after a briefing by officials from the Federal Ministry of Aviation. He said President BUHARI directed the Ministry of Aviation to speed up all processes and projects relating to the safety and security of Nigeria's air transport system.  President BUHARI further directed that counterpart funding for the upgrading of the international airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu, should be captured in the 2016 budget. According to the statement; the Permanent Secretary of the Aviation Ministry, BINTA BELLO told the President that the five new International Airport Terminal Buildings could cater for sixty-two million passengers annually when completed in the first quarter of 2016.

 

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