{"id":15356,"date":"2020-05-18T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15356"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:09:49","slug":"nigeria-impounds-british-plane-for-flouting-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/18\/nigeria-impounds-british-plane-for-flouting-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria impounds British plane for &#8216;flouting ban&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria has impounded a British aircraft that is alleged to have flouted a ban aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said the plane, operated by FlairJet, was allowed to fly humanitarian aid but had contravened a ban on almost all passenger flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing Flairjet\u2019s action as callous, he said the crew was being questioned and maximum penalties could follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has not commented on the seizure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s ban on passenger flights &#8211; except for returning nationals &#8211; is due to run until 4 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has impounded a British aircraft that is alleged to have flouted a ban aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said the plane, operated by FlairJet, was allowed to fly humanitarian aid but had contravened a ban on almost all passenger flights. Describing Flairjet\u2019s action as callous, he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15358,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356\/revisions\/15358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}