For the first time in 70 years, Ghana will no longer manage Nigeria’s airspace. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate takeover of the country’s skies over the Gulf of Guinea from Ghana in West Africa, according to Nigerian newspapers.

After meeting with the Nigerian president Wednesday, aviation officials told journalists that Nigeria’s airspace was safe and other neighboring countries were also making arrangements to take over their airspaces from Ghana. “We have a directive by the president to start the process of securing the management of Nigerian airspace over the Gulf of Guinea, which Ghana has been maintaining since 1945, and there is a move on the ground by Togo and Republic of Benin to take over the management of their own airspace from Ghana,” Binta Bello, the permanent secretary for the aviation ministry, said in the capital Abuja, according to Daily Trust.

Buhari was briefed by officials at the presidential villa on the state of Nigeria’s aviation sector, which is facing massive debt. Some airlines are struggling to maintain premium operations, which Buhari said put safety, security and international respectability at great risk. The country’s national carrier, Nigeria Airways Limited, which was established in 1958, went under in 2003 and was later liquidated by the public enterprises bureau. Buhari has instructed aviation officials to re-establish a national carrier.

“The President is quite concerned about lack of national carrier for now and he has directed the ministry to look into the possibility of having a national carrier as soon as possible,” Bello said Wednesday, according to Vanguard Newspapers.

Buhari’s administration reportedly plans to revamp international airport terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugua and expand their capacity next year.

“I am concerned about the enormous debt profile in the aviation sector,” the Nigerian president said Wednesday, according to THISDAY. “Our airports are the windows through which people see our country. Anybody coming into the country will likely come through the airports. If we cannot secure and maintain our infrastructure, it will reflect very badly on us.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/buhari-revamps-nigeria-aviation-sector-orders-takeover-airspace-ghana-first-time-70-2041525

Thank you Lord for giving us a President at last... SAI BUHARI!!!!!

NIGERIANS need to put aside tribal sentiments and mediocre thinking and pray that Buhari lives out his 4-year term so that he will
1: Reform, Rebuild and Empower the Nation's Critical Agencies to work more efficiently
2: Remove all incompetent, dullards who have lead this (once) "great nation" and place round pegs in round holes
3: Demolish useless political banter in the course of allocating funds to infrastructure projects nationwide.
4: Severely Punish PHCN Officials and Discos for ripping off many Nigerians while making a huge profit. In otherwords FINALLY FIX POWER
5: Arrest and Jail the poster above me for trying to sell Dangote Cement online

PMB is really working


Am so happy to be part of the change



Nice one my president

thank God I didn't waste my vote. SAI BUHARI

Barcanister...

Come and tell us how this should not yet be celebrated na.

18hrs Power supply -dont celebrate yet
Naira rise - don't celebrate yet
Bokoharam now begging - dont celebrate yet
EFCC now active - dont celebrate yet..
USA now cooperating - dont celebrate yet
Foreign reserve rising -dont celeebrate yet

I am happy you know that the big celentation is on its way...so yes...we wont celebrate yet....

Unlike Jonathan whose regime gave us no reason to smile.

#Never Again

voltron:
NIGERIANS need to put aside tribal sentiments and mediocre thinking and pray that Buhari lives out his 4-year term so that he will
1: Reform, Rebuild and Empower the Nation's Critical Agencies to work more efficiently
2: Remove all incompetent, dullards who have lead this (once) "great nation" and place round pegs in round holes
3: Demolish useless political banter in the course of allocating funds to infrastructure projects nationwide.
4: Severely Punish PHCN Officials and Discos for ripping off many Nigerians while making a huge profit. In otherwords FINALLY FIX POWER
5: Arrest and Jail the poster above me for trying to sell Dangote Cement online

By the time PMB is done with our nation through his Marxist-Socialist policies you won:t even have a phone to type from. The worst of things were done with the best of intentions

hinwazaka:

By the time PMB is done with our nation through his Marxist-Socialist policies you won:t even have a phone to type from. The worst of things were done with the best of intentions

The best intentions usually don't pan out well in Politics

soe:
Barcanister...

Come and tell us how this should not yet be celebrated na.

18hrs Power supply -dont celebrate yet
Naira rise - don't celebrate yet
Bokoharam now begging - dont celebrate yet
EFCC now active - dont celebrate yet..
USA now cooperating - dont celebrate yet
Foreign reserve rising -dont celeebrate yet

I am happy you know that the big celentation is on its way...so yes...we wont celebrate yet....

Unlike Jonathan whose regime gave us no reason to smile.

#Never Again

he will not get your mention because you didnt spell it correctly.it's ba ca nista