{"id":80091,"date":"2025-12-11T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80091"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:13:02","slug":"ibom-air-flight-returns-to-abuja-after-lagos-landing-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/ibom-air-flight-returns-to-abuja-after-lagos-landing-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibom Air Flight Returns to Abuja After Lagos Landing Fails\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Ibom Air flight from Abuja to Lagos on Thursday was forced to return to the capital after poor weather prevented a safe landing.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong, who was on the flight, said the aircraft took off around 7:10 a.m. but could not land in Lagos after circling for about 30 minutes. The captain later announced a return to Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re back in Abuja. Two hours in the air. The captain handled it well,\u201d Effiong posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Ibom Air has yet to issue a statement on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The episode adds to recent weather-related disruptions in Nigeria\u2019s aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Air Peace reported delays in Lagos and Port Harcourt due to heavy rainfall, citing passenger safety as its top priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata An Ibom Air flight from Abuja to Lagos on Thursday was forced to return to the capital after poor weather prevented a safe landing. Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong, who was on the flight, said the aircraft took off around 7:10 a.m. but could not land in Lagos after circling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80091","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\/80091","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=80091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80093,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091\/revisions\/80093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}