{"id":543,"date":"2023-03-14T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=543"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:48:55","slug":"foreign-airlines-trapped-funds-in-nigeria-hits-743m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/03\/14\/foreign-airlines-trapped-funds-in-nigeria-hits-743m\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign airlines trapped funds in Nigeria hits $743m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trapped funds belonging to foreign airlines operating in Nigeria have reached $743.72million from $662million in January 2023.<br \/>\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday, disclosed this in a letter addressed to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, signed by the Area Manager West and Central Africa, Dr. Samson Fatokun, and obtained by our correspondent in Abuja.<br \/>\nAccording to the letter, IATA and the global airline community seek an invention from the minister for the resolution of airlines blocked funds issues in Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cFor over a year, Nigeria has been the country with the highest amount of airline-blocked funds in the world. Please find attached the comparative table of airlines\u2019 blocked funds by country.<br \/>\n\u201cMoreover, as of January 2023, airlines\u2019 blocked funds in Nigeria have increased to $743.721.092 from $662m in January 2023 and $549m in December 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trapped funds belonging to foreign airlines operating in Nigeria have reached $743.72million from $662million in January 2023. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday, disclosed this in a letter addressed to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, signed by the Area Manager West and Central Africa, Dr. Samson Fatokun, and obtained by our correspondent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}