Nigeria: History As First Airplane Lands in New Bayelsa Airport

15 February 2019

Yenagoa — It was a day of joy in Bayelsa State Thursday as the first airplane marked 5N-BUV, touched down at the newly-built Bayelsa International airport in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw, the heartland of the Ijaw nation.

A second flight operated by Air Peace Airline also landed at the airport, which has a 3.5 - kilometre runway, said to be the longest in the country, where a jubilant crowd eagerly waited to receive Governor Seriake Dickson.

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