Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has disclosed that the state is planning to determine a business airline.
Sanwo-Olu made this identified on Thursday in the course of the Folks's City Corridor Assembly of Lagos West Senatorial District, held on the Balmoral Conference Centre, Sheraton, Ikeja.
Based on Sanwo-Olu, the concept of having a state-owned airport has been into consideration for a number of months. He mentioned the state is within the ultimate phases of figuring out the financing mannequin for the undertaking.
When requested why a state as massive as Lagos doesn’t but have a business airline, Sanwo-Olu mentioned the plan is within the works.
“For the previous 5 months, the Deputy Governor and I’ve been engaged on getting ready a concise plan for establishing an airline, however we now have not made the plan public as a result of want to achieve adequate information about airline working procedures. .
“The marketing strategy is viable and there’s no downside with financing. The dialogue is at a sophisticated stage however we have to get the proper data on the operations earlier than we proceed with the implementation of the plan,” Sanwo-Olu mentioned.
The governor additionally acknowledged that development of the long-awaited Fourth Mainland Bridge would start within the first quarter of this yr, “by the top of March or April.”
He famous that the bridge shall be in-built phases, whereas promising that landlords and tenants of buildings demolished throughout development shall be correctly compensated.
“We’ve got executed in depth work on the bridge. However we're on the crossroads of the place we will get the actual funding for these kinds of initiatives. We should be very inventive.
“Our dedication is that inside this primary quarter, which suggests by the top of March or April, we must always break floor to begin development of the Fourth Mainland Bridge,” he added.
All rights reserved. This materials and different digital content material on this web site might not be reproduced, revealed, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed, in entire or partly, with out the prior specific written permission of PUNCH.
Contact: [email protected]
