{"id":80396,"date":"2025-12-17T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80396"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:33:54","slug":"reps-move-to-secure-release-of-nigerian-aircraft-crew-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/reps-move-to-secure-release-of-nigerian-aircraft-crew-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Move to Secure Release of Nigerian Aircraft, Crew in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to take urgent steps to secure the release of a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft and its crew currently detained in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, adopted on Tuesday, followed a motion of urgent public importance, with lawmakers describing the incident as a matter of national concern.<\/p>\n<p>The House directed its relevant committees to engage the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs to resolve the issue within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the motion, the aircraft, which was on a ferry flight to Portugal for routine maintenance, made a precautionary landing in Burkina Faso due to technical issues, in line with international aviation protocols.<\/p>\n<p>However, Burkinabe authorities reportedly accused the aircraft of unauthorised airspace entry, leading to its grounding and the detention of the crew amid heightened regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The House called on the Federal Government to utilise bilateral channels as well as ECOWAS and African Union mechanisms to secure the safe return of the aircraft and personnel.<\/p>\n<p>It also urged timely public communication to counter misinformation while safeguarding ongoing diplomatic efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to take urgent steps to secure the release of a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft and its crew currently detained in Burkina Faso. The resolution, adopted on Tuesday, followed a motion of urgent public importance, with lawmakers describing the incident as a matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80396","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80398,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80396\/revisions\/80398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}