Video: Ogun State’s Gateway International Airport receives commercial flights approval this week

Abdullateef Fowewe

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has announced that the Gateway International Airport in Ogun is poised to receive official licensing and approval for commercial operations this week.

Video link: https://x.com/DailyEconews/status/1955313464496332956?t=83-JF6U4x_6o9TbOQwqj4w&s=19

Speaking, Abiodun revealed, “We now have Ogun State Gateway International Airport, by the grace of God the airport will be officially licensed and approved for commercial flights this week. I had a meeting on Sunday with the company that wants to be flying two cargo flights every week from London to this airport.”

He added exciting plans for connectivity, stating, “You will have flights that will be going from here to Abuja and Port Harcourt.”

Highlighting the significance of the approval, the governor said, “When NCAA came last week to congratulate me here, they said, by God’s grace this week, we’ll approve this airport, and the approval that your airport will get, no other airports in Nigeria has that approval. Your airport has now become the benchmark of what an airport should be in Nigeria… the approvals they gave me, nobody has it; other airports are now going to be striving to have that level of approval.”

Governor Abiodun underscored the strategic advantage of the airport, noting, “This airport will now become the alternative airport to Murtala Muhammad International Airport. Presently, if a plane can’t land there (MMA), it goes to Ghana, but once the license is approved, the plane that can’t land in MMA will land here in Iperu.”

Concluding on a visionary note, he stated, “This is what happens when vision meets passion — it translates to implementation. This puts our state on a global map.”