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The Federal Government has postponed the resumption date of international flights billed for August 29 to September 5.
The Federal Ministry of Aviation announced this on Thursday via a post in its Twitter handle.
“Breaking: Regret to announce that the international flight resumption earlier scheduled to resume on 29th August has been shifted to 5th September 2020,” it tweeted.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had last week Monday announced that international flights into and out of Nigeria would resume on August 29.
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, however, said that the date was not sacrosanct.
International flights were suspended by the Federal Government in March, as a result of the global outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
He further disclosed that like it was done during the resumption of domestic flights across the country, the international flights would commence with two major airports.
He named the airports as the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Sirika said emphasis would be placed on the observation of all the safety and technical guidelines as prescribed by global and health authorities, which would be communicated in due course.