Nigeria, Dec. 10 -- The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Wednesday, said the State government expended a total of N49.77 billion on the Ekiti Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport.

The foundation-laying ceremony for the airport was performed by the immediate past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on 18 October 2019.

On 15 October 2022, the first aircraft, the Nigerian Air Force aircraft ATR 42, piloted by E.A. Balogun, a flight lieutenant, with Mr Sirika on board, landed at the airport.

However, speaking at the inauguration of the inaugural commercial flight into the Ekiti Airport by United Nigeria Airlines, Mr Oyebanji said that from May 2019 to October 2022, when the trial flight landed under the administration of Governo...