{"id":15065,"date":"2020-05-25T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15065"},"modified":"2020-05-25T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T09:46:48","slug":"covid-19-british-airline-penalised-for-breaching-nigerias-aviation-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15065","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: British airline penalised for breaching Nigeria\u2019s aviation guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said on Sunday the Federal Government had penalised a British<\/a> airline, Flairjet, for operating commercial flights into Nigeria without approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sirika, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle, said the airline contravened section 1.3.3 of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, the Flairjet\u2019s \u201ccallous misdemeanor\u201d has been reported to the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority and the country\u2019s (UK) High Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cFlairjet was found to violate our Civil Aviation Regulations IS 1.3.3(a) Table 2(IV)7(a) and IS 1.3.3 (a) Table 2(VIII)(4). The maximum penalty for each is N500,000:00K. We caused them to pay and reported their callous misdemeanor to UK CAA, MFA, and the UK High Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal government had in March closed all the country\u2019s airports to international flights in response to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This closure which was initially to end on April 23 was extended for another four weeks on May 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha<\/a>, who announced this, said the federal government extended the flight ban after due consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said on Sunday the Federal Government had penalised a British airline, Flairjet, for operating commercial flights into Nigeria without approval. Sirika, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle, said the airline contravened section 1.3.3 of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations 2015. According to him, the Flairjet\u2019s \u201ccallous misdemeanor\u201d has been reported […]<\/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":[40,27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCOVID-19: British airline penalised for breaching Nigeria\u2019s aviation guidelines » 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=15065\" \/>\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=15065#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Aviation\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=40\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"COVID-19: British airline penalised for breaching Nigeria\u2019s aviation guidelines\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"COVID-19: British airline penalised for breaching Nigeria\u2019s aviation guidelines » 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=15065","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15065#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Aviation","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=40"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"COVID-19: British airline penalised for breaching Nigeria\u2019s aviation guidelines"}]}]}},"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=40\" rel=\"category\">Aviation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said on Sunday the Federal Government had penalised a British airline, Flairjet, for operating commercial flights into Nigeria without approval. Sirika, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle, said the airline contravened section 1.3.3 of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations 2015. According to him, the Flairjet\u2019s \u201ccallous misdemeanor\u201d has been reported…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15065"}],"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=15065"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}