Nigeria: Government Announces New Resumption Date For Domestic Flights

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced this in a tweet on Wednesday that Abuja and Lagos airports will resume domestic operations on July 8, while the Kano, Port Harcourt, Owerri and Maiduguri airports would resume on the 11th.

According to him, other airports are also expected to resume operations on the 15th and noted that a date for the international airports will be announced in due course.

It would be recalled that the minister had earlier said that that airlines have been losing over N17 billion monthly since their operations were grounded.