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  • Asagba of Asaba to FG: Boost Asaba Airport, support young pilots

    Asagba of Asaba to FG: Boost Asaba Airport, support young pilots

    Asagba of Asaba, Professor Epiphany Azinge, has urged the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, to facilitate the increase of flight operations in Asaba Airport.

    During a visit to the minister in Abuja, the monarch also requested the minister’s intervention in supporting Delta youths who have undergone pilot training programs to advance their training and become professional pilots.

    Special Adviser on Media and Communication to the Minister, Mr Tunde Moshood, said this in a statement.

    His words: “The royal father also articulated three key requests to enhance the aviation landscape in Asaba and Delta State at large. Firstly, he requested an increase in flight operations at Asaba Airport, which he thought should be more frequent owing to the status and importance of the city. He urged the Minister to leverage his position to facilitate the growth of flight operations in Asaba, transforming it into an international airport capable of accommodating regular international flights and serving as a transit hub for large aircraft staying overnight.

    “Second, the royal father highlighted the growing pool of talented, veteran pilots among Delta’s youth, many of whom have developed pilot training programs.

    He requested the minister’s intervention in supporting these youths through government channels, including the possibility of Public-Private Partnerships, PPP, to help realize their dreams of advancing their training and becoming professional pilots.”

  • Insecurity: Asagba of Asaba vows to ensure crackdown on drug peddlers

    Insecurity: Asagba of Asaba vows to ensure crackdown on drug peddlers

    ASABA –THE Asagba of Asaba, HRM Prof Epiphany Azinge, SAN, has vowed to ensure a crackdown on drug peddlers who he said have infested the Cable Point area of the State capital in the next one week.

    He reiterated his determination to restore the lost glory of Cable-Point which he said, was rooted in history as once a centre of attraction where notable elites resided.

    Speaking at a reception held in his honour by the various communities resident in Cable Point, Azinge noted that “for us coming to Cable Point is to reconnect with our history and or past. For us to abandon Cable Point is to abandon a rich part of our history.

    “So, we have resolved that it is in our collective interest not to abandon Cable Point but to make sure that we build Cable Point.”

    The Asagba expressed worry that the area was now almost a theatre of conflict, saying “if there is any escalation of violence that will ensue in Asaba, it is likely to erupt from Cable Point.

    “We are here to forestall any eventuality to make sure that it doesn’t happen and the only way that it will not happen is for you people to take responsibility, to know how to confront some of these emergencies and to take the bull by the horn early in the day.

    “We are here because, Cable Point, from the intelligence available to us, is more or less a drug-infested area. Most of the drugs peddled in Asaba that filter into the other parts of Asaba, have their roots here in Cable Point and that is why we are saying enough is enough.

    “We are only going to give one week’s notice to all those people involved before we start raiding all those places. We know why we are here, we are here for a mission and the mission is to send this message to all the people residing on Cable Point that yes, Asaba is peaceful, but we don’t want any conflagration or breach of peace that will start from Cable-Point.

    “So we want to thank you for this reception. But for me, it is not the quality of the reception thatis important. What is important to me is that there is a restoration of the quality of the cable point we are used to by the

    time we leave here.

    “We want to encourage you to live the way you have been living, especially those of you who were born here and those who have been here for more than 60 years. “