Members of the Central Working Committee of the Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ have visited the Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport Birnin Kebbi to see developments there.
The CWC members are in Birnin Kebbi for their maiden meeting after the national delegates conference which took place in November last year in Owerri, during which national officers were elected.
The meeting commenced tomorrow at Saffar Hotel and is expected to wind up Thursday.
Led by the NUJ National President Alhassan Yahaya, the CWC members were received at the Sultan Abubakar International Airport Sokoto by the National Vice President Tukur Dutsinmari and some members of the state executive council.
On their arrival in Birnin Kebbi, they were driven straight to the Airport where the Commissioner of Information and Culture Yakubu Ahmed BK and the Permanent Secretary in charge of the Airport Habibu Sabi Kamba received them and took them round the dump site which was constructed by the Dr Nasir Idris’s government to enhance air transportation.
The Permanent Secretary informed them that the construction of the fuel dump was necessitated by the need to satisfy requirements to enable hajj operations and local air transportation to be eased.
He explained that the Airport has now become a hub where international and local aircrafts passing by land in order to refuel and move on.
The visiting journalists expressed delight at the development and hoped to be availed of other key achievements of the Kebbi state government. They will visit some key infrastructure in the state capital tomorrow while their meeting takes place later in the evening into the night.
