Nigeria, May 23 -- Nigeria's Aviation Minister, Festus Keyamo, and one of his predecessors, Osita Chidoka, took to social media on Wednesday to trade words over the return of Emirates Airlines flight to Nigeria.

Last week, Emirates Airlines announced that it would resume flight services to Nigeria on 1 October; after over a year, it suspended operations there due to difficulties in repatriating trapped funds.

Following the announcement, on Wednesday, Mr Chidoka, a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a statement posted on his official X page, criticised the federal government and the airline's imminent return to the Nigerian airspace.

According to the statement titled; "No to The Return of Emirates Airlines to...