The minister of state on Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika said the Port Harcourt international airport project was funded through the China-Exim bank loan of $500m with a US $100m counterpart fund facility.

“At the time this administration came on board, the level of work was below 30% and bedeviled with various technical challenges which included foundation design change, inaccessibility to Apron, inadequate Apron space,master plan distortion, water and sewage provision, inadequate power supply.”

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The Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) initiative was put into motion by the African Union Chairperson and Rwandan president, Paul Kagame on Sunday. Supported by 23 African nation, the SAATM comes 30 years after the proposal of open African skies in the Yamoussoukro Declaration of 1988.

As a result, chosen airlines from the 23 nations will be given the green light to operate under the unrestrictive traffic rights presented in the Yamoussoukro Decision (1999) – the evolution of the declaration proposed 11 years prior.

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