The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), today grounded Bellview Airline.

Although no official reasons were adduced for the action as officials of NCAA declined to pick our calls, Bellview has been facing some challenges, one of which is the airline’s inability to airlift passengers from one destination to another.

Recently, over 200 passengers that bought the airline’s ticket for a trip to London were stranded at the Lagos airport for about a week. The passengers embarked on a violent protest before they were eventually airlifted.

Meanwhile, the plan by aviation workers to paralyse activities at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) following their threaten on Saturday, failed this morning due to the presence of heavily armed mobile policemen.

The policemen, led by a superintendent of police, Omololu Dishi, took over the GAT and the headquarters of the Federal Aviation Terminal as early as 6am today.

They stood at strategic locations and maintained that law and order will not be broken by the protesters. “We are here so that law and order will not be broken. We are also here to protect the Federal Government’s property as this is a very sensitive place and will not allow any crisis to take place here today.”

The General Secretary of the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Comrade Gideon Ogeuji, told P.M.News that the director of State Security Services (SSS) at the airport has summoned them to a meeting today adding that if the meeting ends in a deadlock, no flight will take off or land by midnight today.

Meanwhile, activities went on as usual today as flight took off and landed peacefully.

Arik Air, one of the busiest airlines in the country, has vowed not to relocate to Nigeria Murtala Airport 2 as directed by the Federal Government.

A staff of FAAN told P.M.News that the MD of FAAN has told them he has handed over the terminal to Bi-Courtney Ltd. and no amount of protests will change anything.

Policemen had taken over the MMA2 at the time of filing this report

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