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FG plans recovering N37bn debt from airlines, says Emirates ban stays The Punch
The Federal Government has vowed to recover a total of N37bn from airlines still owing various categories of debts.
This is just as the government stated that the ban on Emirates Airlines would continue.
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, stated these at this week’s ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the presidential villa, Abuja. File photo: An Emirates Airlines airplane flies past a minaret in the emirate of Dubai. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)
Sirika who said airlines owed federal agencies N37bn also explained that Arik owed between N13bn and N14bn.
Chinedu Eze
Many Nigerians have inadvertently booked and paid for flights on fraudulent airline sites, which are either cloned or copied to look like that of the airlines by fraudsters.
In fact, it is projected that air travellers may have lost about N2 billion on such fake sites in the last five years, but as airlines strive to inform travellers about such possible sites, some continue to fall victims, especially now Internet fraud is on the increase.
Spokesman of Air Peace, Stanley Olisa told THISDAY that there was a time some fraudsters manipulated the airline’s website and travellers were making payments into it.
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