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The Ekiti Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport recorded a historic milestone on friday 7th February 2025 as the first commercial flight landed at the facility.

The aircraft, operated by Rano Air, departed from Abuja at 4:25 PM and touched down in Ado Ekiti at 5:10 PM.

Among the passengers on board was former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, along with other dignitaries.

Recall that the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority in December granted the Ekiti Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport in Ado Ekiti, approval to commence non-scheduled flight operations beginning from December 15, 2024.

The NCAA Acting Director-General, Capt. Chris Najomo, clarified in the letter that the approval covers non-scheduled operations under Visual Flight Rules for six months, from December 15, 2024, to June 15, 2025

Also the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, visited the airport to assess its progress. During his visit, Keyamo praised the construction quality, describing the runway as one of the best in Nigeria

SeeWahala:
Empty plane carrying empty politicians for a photo ops is what this op is calling a commercial flight?

Mediocre is an understatement here

AustineE1:
Ekiti airport....I hope this won't turn to cow grazing field.How viable is it?

zero8zero:
https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2025/02/09/video-indigenes-react-as-first-commercial-flight-lands-in-ekiti-cargo-airport/

SeeWahala:
Empty plane carrying empty politicians for a photo ops is what this op is calling a commercial flight?

Mediocre is an understatement here

legitnow1:
WHAY ARE YORUBAS STILL BUILDING AIRPORT?


Y DONT THEY ALL USE THE AIRPORT ALREADY IN LAGOS?


NA OJUKOKORO GO KIL ALL OF UNA.


WITH THE KIND NOISE UNA MAKE BECAUSE STELLA BUILD 1 AIRPORT FOR ENUGU, I THINK SAY IT IS LAGOS OR NOTHING.

zero8zero:
Almost all the SW states have an airport.

AustineE1:
Ekiti airport....I hope this won't turn to cow grazing field.How viable is it?Except Abuja to Lagos flight will stop over in Ekiti to onboard one or two passengers in Ekiti,may be once a month.I doubt any line will take such financial risk.

phemmyfour:
Which state doesn't have airport in US

zero8zero:
Almost all the SW states have an airport.

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

anonimi:
How many of the six south west states have achieved free education for all children in schools with adequate professional teachers and other staff?

Is it Ekiti that has been governed by APC progressives for almost two decades?

legitnow1:
ASKTHE YORUBAS CRYING AND WANTED TO DIE BECAUSE STELLA ODUAH BUILT AN AIRPORT IN THE SE FOR IGBO PEOPLE TO STOP RISKING THEIR LIFE ON THE ROAD WITH 8 TO 10HOURS JOURNEY FIRST JUST TO GO BOARD PLANE IN LAGOS.



FOR MANY YEARS THEY ARE STILL OPPOSING THE AIRPORT WHICH LEAD TO EBONYI AND ANAMBRA STATE BUILDING AORPORTS.



THE WICKEDNESS WE HAVE SEEN IN THIS NIGERIA FROM YORUBA PEOPLE, IT IS ONLY GOD THAT WILL JUDGE THE FOR IT.

DeOTR:
How many States in Nigeria has achieved free basic education?

zero8zero:
Almost all the SW states have an airport.

anonimi:
How many of the six south west states have achieved free education for all children in schools with adequate professional teachers and other staff?

Is it Ekiti that has been governed by APC progressives for almost two decades?

What is the wisdom of building an airport without prioritising the people’s money for the free education of all children