National Assembly To Grill Officials Of Ministries Of Aviation, Foreign Affairs, Justice Over Failed ‘Nigeria Air’ Carrier

The committee had invited relevant stakeholders to the listening to earlier scheduled for Monday in Abuja. On the opposite hand, representatives of many of the stakeholders had left the venue earlier than the advent of the committee’s Chairman, Nnolim Nnaji, who came about two hours within the attend of schedule.
 

The Home of Representatives Committee on Aviation has rescheduled its investigative listening to on the controversial commence of Air Nigeria, Nigeria’s national carrier, by the last administration of used President, Muhammadu Buhari.
The committee had invited relevant stakeholders to the listening to earlier scheduled for Monday in Abuja. On the opposite hand, representatives of many of the stakeholders had left the venue earlier than the advent of the committee’s Chairman, Nnolim Nnaji, who came about two hours within the attend of schedule.
The stakeholders invited by the committee include the Ministry of Aviation, Ministry of International Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Price, Airline Operators of Nigeria, Ethiopian Airways to boot to aviation gas (Jet-A1) suppliers.
Nnaji, after his arrival, apologised to stakeholders who waited within the attend of at the venue, asking that the listening to be postponed to 3pm on Tuesday (this present day), PUNCH reports.
SaharaReporters had about per week within the past reported that the Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian executive committed a well-known blunder in its routine deception of Nigerians by unveiling a Boeing 737-800 sequence plane because the “Nigerian Air” which in actuality belongs to Ethiopia Airways.
SaharaReporters had learnt that the airplane unveiled as Nigerian Air is over 10 years extinct and belongs to Ethiopian Airways.
Basically based fully totally on details acquired by SaharaReporters from Plane Spotters, a platform which takes a listing of plane, “The Registration Number is ET-APL and the Mode is S Q4005C. The Serial Number: 40965/4075. The first flight used to be an Ethiopian Airways plane. Then it modified into Malawi Airways on 16th February 2014. It used to be then acquired again by Ethiopian Airways in 2015 and has been running below Ethiopian Air since then.
“Then on the twenty sixth of May perhaps well per chance honest 2023, it has Nigeria Air colors without altering ownership. It used to be first spotted in South Africa earlier than it flew to Nigeria this present day.”
The plane took off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at 9:55 am on Friday and landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport, Abuja, at 12:43 pm.
The Buhari administration had failed to bring Nigeria Air after eight years, over the controversy that surrounded the national carrier.
The Federal Government had boycotted home airways, below the aegis of the Airline Operators of Nigeria, and signed a address Ethiopian Airways to waft the Nigerian carrier.
The AON had consequently dragged the manager and its companies earlier than a court to slay the route of.