Nigerian FG extends airport closure by two weeks

The Federal Government has broadened the conclusion of air terminals in the nation by about fourteen days due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, revealed this on Monday. 

The PUNCH had detailed that the FG shut every single worldwide air terminal in the nation on Monday, March 23 for one month. 

In this manner, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had stretched out the conclusion to every nearby air terminal in the nation while reporting 14-day lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States on March 29. 

Buhari, on April 13, had expanded the lockdown in the three states by about fourteen days. 

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja are two significant section focuses into Nigeria. 

In spite of the conclusion of these air terminals and all others in the nation to business flight activities, the administration had said crisis and basic flights could be worked from any of the air terminals inside the period. 

However, declaring on Monday by means of Twitter, the aeronautics serve said the air terminals would not, at this point open for business procedure on April 23 because of the all-inclusive lockdown in the three urban communities. 

He stated, "because of the augmentation on lockdown by Mr President, it is not, at this point workable for us to open our airspace and air terminals for typical activities by the 23rd April 2020. 

"They will stay shut for a further fourteen days. This is liable to audit as fitting." 

As indicated by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control as of Sunday night, there were more than 600 affirmed instances of the deadly infection in the nation. 

More than 20 COVID-19-related passings have been recorded including the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, who kicked the bucket on Friday in the wake of testing positive for the infection upon come back from abroad.