The minister of aviation, Hadi Sirika has said the resumption of international flights will be ‘in a matter of weeks.’
Speaking during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Thursday, Sirika said “So, we will open as soon as all of us are happy to open and I want to adopt what the national coordinator has said by saying, it will be in a matter of weeks rather than in months for international flights to resume”.
For five months, the federal government had shut down airports for international flights as a result of the increase in COVID-19 cases.
While other countries have since opened their airports to international flights, the reopening of Nigerian airspace had lingered for a while.
This situation had forced several Nigerians to travel to Europe and the United States through Cotonou.
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers.
She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay.
She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos.
As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender.
She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies.
Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the
prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category.
She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category.
She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations.
Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.
