Cheering News! Akanu Ibiam Airport Cleared For Flights To USA, China and others

The Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Emene, Enugu State, has been approved for international flight operations to and from Atlanta, United States of America; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Johannesburg, South Africa; Mubia, India and Gwuanzuo, China.
 This revelation was made yesterday at the closing ceremony of Enugu State maiden investment summit by the Chairman, Air Peace, Allen Onyema, who equally announced that Air Peace had been approved as national carrier into the five countries by the Federal Government.

Also, delegates at the investment summit stood still when Chairman, Peace Mass Transit, Dr. Samuel Onyishi, announced plans to build a mega medical city in Enugu State in collaboration with foreign partners to put the state on the map of medical tourism in Africa.

You will recall that  Nigerian airports have suffered untold neglect and decay over 15 years with successive ministers making policy statements on what to do to revive them.

Not until the pass administration took the bull by the horn, by commissioning a total remodeling of our airports across Nigerian. Infact, Balarabe Usman, a retired pilot who led a group of aviation professionals known as Stakeholders’ Square Table, said they took a critical look at development in the sector, at the end of an executive session, and noted that the country’s airports, which had suffered infrastructural decay in the past, “had suddenly turned into construction sites, due to the ongoing airport remodelling projects, designed to modernise Nigerian airports, in line with existing international standards and practices.”

Enugu airport was not left out as international flight were cleared starting with Ethiopian Airline and since then nothing was heard, therefore, we welcome this pleasant news as this step will open the gate way to econmic growth in south east.

Source: Vanguard