FG ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF OWERRI AIRPORT FOR RUNWAY REHABILITATION. (PHOTO).
FG ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF OWERRI AIRPORT FOR RUNWAY REHABILITATION The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has announced the temporary closure of the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, to allow for major runway rehabilitation works. A statement by the Minister says the closure has become necessary to improve safety and operational efficiency at the airport, ahead of the Christmas travel season. It adds that the rehabilitation project is a joint partnership between the Federal Government and the Imo State Government, and will involve repairs to deteriorated sections of the runway, treatment of surface cracks, filling of potholes, resurfacing, and extension works to accommodate larger aircraft. The Minister disclosed that he had earlier spoken with the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma, who, along with other critical stakeholders in the South-East, agreed on the need for the temporary closure. The airport i...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,Ibrahim Magu has said that there is a nexus between corruption and economic recession.Magu who was speaking today thursday,December 1,2016,when he visited the Naval Headquarters in Abuja on a courtesy call said the recession prevalent in Nigeria today was as a fall out of the corruptive tendencies of our leaders.According to him,except Nigerians resolve collectively abhor corruption in all forms,there will be no future for the youths.He also said that it is disturbing that federal,State and Local Government allocations are persistently being misappropriated.''If 50 percent of the allocations at the three tiers of governments are judiciously put to use,we would not be where we are in terms of underdevelopment and infrastructural decay'', he explained.


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