{"id":3324,"date":"2025-04-05T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pillartoday.ng\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:38:57","slug":"cross-riverians-excited-as-state-takes-delivery-of-two-new-aircraft-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Cross Riverians Excited as State Takes Delivery of Two New Aircraft Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Bassy Otu<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By Anietie Akpan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cross River state government will soon take delivery of two new aircraft to boost its fleet in the aviation industry.<\/p>\n

Top sources said, \u201cthe necessary financial transactions and documentations have been completed and in the next few days the two aeroplanes will land Nigeria enroute Calabar, the capital of Cross River state.<\/p>\n

Already there is excitement in the air as people are in high hopes to see the arrival of the planes thus boosting the fleet of Cally Air and ensure its full regeneration and operation as an airline, jettisoning its current borrowed robe status, operating as an appendage of Aero Contractors.<\/p>\n

The Special Adviser to the Governor, General Duties, Barr. Ekpenyong Akiba confirmed that \u201cin the coming days, the issue of Cally Air, our aircraft will be on ground\u201d.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Coordinator, Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project, High\u00a0 Chief Henry Onwe has lauded the State Governor, Senator Bassey Edet Otu for the purchase of the two new aircraft for the state owned Cally Air.<\/p>\n

In a statement released to newsmen in Calabar on Friday, Onwe said the new aircraft will beef the fleet of Cally Air\u00a0 and fully position it for\u00a0\u00a0 profitable business.<\/p>\n

He said , \u201cthese two new aircraft will\u00a0 beef the fleet of Cally Air and adequately give it an edge over other competitors and make it more profitable<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from enhancing its marketability, the acquisition of the two airplanes for Cally Air has positioned it to be registered as an independent airline with full rights to operate in Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n

Onwe said, Governor Otu has with the new investment in Cally Air \u201cgiven the state a pride of place and made it to stand out in the comity of states. We can now hold our heads high as Cross Riverians\u00a0\u00a0 because we have taken back our pride of place as a people with vision and drive for success”.<\/p>\n

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain\u00a0 said, Senator Otu has with his commitment to education, agriculture , health care and other sectors,\u00a0 proven that he is really \u201cSweet Prince\u201d and\u00a0 the mantra, “People First”\u00a0 is really people oriented.<\/p>\n

“He actually stands out among the governors we have had and I can assure you\u00a0 that his second tenure is already a sure\u00a0 bet\u00a0 because his work stands out and speaks volume for him\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n

While welcoming the governor back from his three weeks leave, Onwe called on all Cross Riverians to stand with and support Governor Otu to give him more\u00a0 verve to keep working for the state as \u201cnobody hates a good thing and we.have all seen that Prince Otu is doing great things for our state and good work deserves more work”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Bassy Otu. By Anietie Akpan Cross River state government will soon take delivery of two new aircraft to boost its fleet in the aviation industry. Top sources said, \u201cthe necessary financial transactions and documentations have been completed and in the next few days the two aeroplanes will land Nigeria enroute Calabar, the capital of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}