BREAKING: Sirika In Fresh Trouble As Nigeria Air Plane Flown Into Abuja Allegedly Belongs to Ethiopian Airlines

Flightradar, the popular flight tracking website, said  the aircraft operated between Tel Aviv and Mogadishu, Somalia, still on May 21,  2023.

However,  Ethiopian Airlines is a majority shareholder in Nigeria Air project.

Meanwhile, minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika who announced the landing of the aircraft was silent on whether or not the aircraft was purchased for the project.

However, Politics Nigeria recalls that last year, the minister told journalists that the Federal Executive Council approved the leasing of three aircraft for the carrier.

He said:

“We have said in our outline business case, which was earlier approved, that we are starting with three aircraft for the first instance and then we progress. We will have a mixture of Airbus and Boeings because every airline that will grow big uses the two.

“We will start with domestic flights and then we grow to become international and then we move to become regional and intercontinental. There are challenges currently in our aviation industry but it is a global phenomenon and it will not last forever because aviation is a very resilient sector. Certainly, we will overcome these problems.”