{"id":13588,"date":"2020-05-15T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:27:14","slug":"canada-denies-air-peace-landing-rights-to-evacuate-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13588","title":{"rendered":"Canada denies Air Peace landing rights to evacuate Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on Thursday said the delay in evacuating about 200 Nigerians stranded in Canada<\/a> was because Canadian authorities denied Air Peace landing rights in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airline was scheduled to have evacuated 200 Nigerians from Canada on Thursday, but in a statement on Wednesday, the airline said the flight had been cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe management of Air Peace wishes to announce that its evacuation flight to Canada previously scheduled for May 14, 2020, has been postponed due to logistics issues as communicated to the airline by the Nigerian High Commission in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce the issues are resolved with the Canadian authorities and a new date is issued by the High Commission, we shall duly communicate same to the public\u201d, the airline said in the statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onyeama, while shedding light on the postponement of the flight on Thursday at the press briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19<\/a> in Abuja, said the airline was denied landing rights by the Canadian authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the case indeed that the Canadian government denied landing rights on the grounds that this particular Nigerian carrier did not have licence to undertake commercial flights to that country and was not known to that country for commercial flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur high commissioner in Canada is engaging with the Canadian government on this issue and we\u2019re hopeful that we can have the decision reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe argument that he\u2019s putting forward, which is a strong argument, is that this is not a regular commercial flight to Canada to take passengers, but that this is an emergency flight and that there is a difference between the two. So, the negotiations are ongoing and we are hopeful that there will be a positive result\u201d, the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on Thursday said the delay in evacuating about 200 Nigerians stranded in Canada was because Canadian authorities denied Air Peace landing rights in the country. The airline was scheduled to have evacuated 200 Nigerians from Canada on Thursday, but in a statement on Wednesday, the airline said the flight had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCanada denies Air Peace landing rights to evacuate Nigerians » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13588\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13588#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Canada denies Air Peace landing rights to evacuate Nigerians\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Canada denies Air Peace landing rights to evacuate Nigerians » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13588","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13588#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Canada denies Air Peace landing rights to evacuate Nigerians"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=17\" rel=\"category\">Travel<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on Thursday said the delay in evacuating about 200 Nigerians stranded in Canada was because Canadian authorities denied Air Peace landing rights in the country. The airline was scheduled to have evacuated 200 Nigerians from Canada on Thursday, but in a statement on Wednesday, the airline said the flight had…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}