The Federal Government restated its commitment to stablish a new national carrier by December 2018. Hadi Sirika, The Minister of State for Aviation disclosed the information while unveiling the airline to investors at the Farnborough
International Air Show.
A way to notice how far the project had gone was the presentation of the certificate. The airline is expected to reach US$8.8 million preliminary cost and US$300 million as take-off cost.
As the project will be developed following a public-private partnership, the Nigerian government is not fully funding the airline.
Country updates
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July 09, 2018
The development of the project has stalled due to the FEC not having approved the full business case
The development of the project has stalled due to the FEC not having approved the full business case. It is not known why the Minister of Information and Culture has not presented the compliance certificate to the council
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July 06, 2018
The ICRC has issued a compliance certificate for the Outline Business Case for the project
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July 06, 2018
It has been recently announced that the recent certification of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja may facilitate the airport concessioning process
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July 05, 2018
The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment through the Tafaba Balewa Square Management Board (TBSM) has announced that the RFQ process for interested parties has started
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July 02, 2018
Despite the threat of losing their agreement stakeholders does not show any interest in completing the project and no further progress is achieved
