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Nigeria impounds UK flight running commercial trips despite travel ban

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Nigerian government today announced that it has impounded a flight owned by a UK company being used to run commercial trips despite an existing travel ban.

“Flair Aviation, a UK company, was given approval for humanitarian operations but regrettably we caught them conducting commercial flights,” Nigeria’s aviation minister Hadi Sirika tweeted.

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“The craft is impounded, (the) crew are being interrogated.”

Expressing disappointment in the order flouted by the UK aviation company, Sirika said the action was ‘callous’.

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He disclosed that “there shall be maximum penalty” for the aviation company’s decision to run commercial flights in Nigeria and that it is a “wrong time to try our resolve.

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