Gateway Air ready to airlift hajj pilgrims — Abiodun

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has expressed the readiness of Gateway Air, the state-owned airline, to airlift not lone Ogun pilgrims to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Hajj, but besides intending pilgrims from different South-West states.

The Governor said Ogun would research opportunities to enactment successful the emerging private-sector-driven Hajj airlift arrangement, peculiarly for pilgrims from Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states.

Abiodun disclosed this on Friday when helium received a delegation of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), led by its Commissioner of Operations, Prince Anofiu Elegushi, astatine his office.

The Governor said the authorities authorities had taken enactment of the caller regulations governing private-sector information successful Hajj operations, portion commending NAHCON for its enactment towards ensuring the palmy and harmless airlift of Ogun pilgrims from the Gateway International Airport to Saudi Arabia during the past Hajj exercise.

He said the authorities had ever expressed its tendency to charter an craft nether the Gateway Air marque to airlift its pilgrims straight from the Gateway International Airport.

“We had ever expressed involvement that, based connected what we saw past time, we would similar to charter our ain aircraft. We would similar to b...