FLIGHT DIVERSION: FG TO SPEND 1.1 BILLION ON LOGISTICS...

The Federal Government has earmarked N1.1billion as cost of logistics and security during the six weeks period when flights would be diverted from Abuja to Kaduna Airport, the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika said yesterday.

Briefing senators on the planned closure of Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, Sirika said the amount would be spent on security, transportation and others.


He said of the N1.1bn, the Nigerian Railway Corporation will get N103million, Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC), N237million, Police N358million, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) N29million and Ministry of Transport (Bus services), N84million.

FG DEMOTES DIRECTOR ON GL17 TO GL10 IN AVIATION SECTOR CLEANSING

•40 GMs, deputy GMs affected

The long-awaited cleansing in the country’s aviation sector may have finally started as information filtered into the sector, on Saturday that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Transport, has downgraded over 40 General Managers and deputy general managers at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has recently complained about the huge number of general managers in FAAN, declaring that he could not work with such a huge size.

Following the decision to downgrade some top personnel at FAAN, a particular staff member formerly placed on level 17 was demoted to level 10 and redeployed to another department in the same organization.

Two vehicles plunge into canal in Lagos

Two vehicles have plunged into a canal in front of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, within 12 hours, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The accidents brought to four, the number of such occurrences in the canal in the past three months.

A wine-colour Opel Omega occupied by three brothers plunged into the canal at about 9a.m. on Monday. A Toyota Camry painted in ash colour fell into the canal on Sunday night.

The driver of the Camry was the only occupant.