{"id":76232,"date":"2025-10-08T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76232"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:00:41","slug":"abiodun-launches-first-commercial-flight-at-oguns-gateway-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/08\/abiodun-launches-first-commercial-flight-at-oguns-gateway-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Abiodun Launches First Commercial Flight at Ogun\u2019s Gateway Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday flagged off the first commercial flight at the new Gateway International Airport in Ilishan-Remo.<\/p>\n<p>The ValueJet aircraft, carrying 90 passengers, departed for Abuja at 10:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Abiodun said the project, which began in 2021, was part of his administration\u2019s plan to build a modern multimodal transport system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome mocked this project, calling it a photo op and a dump site, but today we have proved them wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the airport, which had its first test flight in February 2023, was completed within two years and meets all aviation standards.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, he added, is part of an Aerotropolis that will include major developments such as a textile plant and a Customs Village.<\/p>\n<p>The governor thanked the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), and Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, for their support.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the State Assembly, Oludaisi Elemide, described the project as a dream come true for Ogun\u2019s founding fathers, while NCAA Director General Chris Ona-Najomo lauded the state for meeting regulatory standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday flagged off the first commercial flight at the new Gateway International Airport in Ilishan-Remo. The ValueJet aircraft, carrying 90 passengers, departed for Abuja at 10:10 a.m. Abiodun said the project, which began in 2021, was part of his administration\u2019s plan to build a modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76234,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76232\/revisions\/76234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}