The Federal Authorities has renamed the Minna Airport in Niger State after President Bola Tinubu hours to the inauguration of the airport on Monday.
The airport had earlier been named after the late Abubakar Imam by the FG when 15 airports within the nation had been named after some outstanding personalities in Nigeria.
The state Commissioner for Data, Binta Mamman, disclosed the newest improvement on Sunday throughout a media briefing on the Authorities Home, Minna, the place she unveiled preparations for the internet hosting of the President who would inaugurate the airport in addition to some mechanised farming implements.
“All is ready for the Niger State Authorities to obtain President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Minna, the state capital. In the course of the President’s go to, he’ll fee the remodelled and upgraded terminal on the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Worldwide Airport,” she stated.
The commissioner disclosed that the remodelling of the airport was initially an FG venture however on account of a delay in completion, the state authorities took over the venture after session with related authorities for quick completion.
She additional said that the venture would function an alternative choice to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport contemplating the state’s proximity to the nation’s capital.
The state Commissioner for Trade, Commerce and Funding, Aminu Takuma, who was represented by the Particular Adviser to the Governor on Governance and Reform, Dr. Isah Adamu, whereas fielding questions from newsmen, defined that the renaming of the Airport was primarily based on the assist of the President to the state thus far.
He stated it was the FG’s prerogative to rename the airport because it was the identical that had earlier named it.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Musa Salihu, additionally revealed that the state-of-the-art- tools for agricultural mechanisation procured by the state authorities to assist and obtain the meals safety agenda of each the State and Federal Governments can be inaugurated.
He defined that the tools similar to tractors, energy tillers, planters and harvesters had been already assembled on the airport for a symbolic demonstration of irrigation farming on the Airport Metropolis Free Agro Processing Zone.
Salihu stated with all of the efforts of the Governor Mohammed Bago-led administration particularly on agriculture, the state can be the agricultural hub of Nigeria.
