{"id":1668065,"date":"2022-10-01T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668065"},"modified":"2022-10-01T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:50:37","slug":"nigeria-would-consider-chinas-c919-plane-for-new-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nigeria-would-consider-chinas-c919-plane-for-new-airline\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria would consider China\u2019s C919 plane for new airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnigeria-would-consider-chinas-c919-plane-for-new-airline%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MONTREAL (Reuters) \u2013     Nigeria would consider buying China\u2019s newly-certified C919 passenger jet as it grows the country\u2019s fledgling carrier Nigeria Air to 30 planes by around 2025, Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sirika said the new airline would have a mixture of Airbus and Boeing planes, but added the carrier is also willing to look at the Chinese narrowbody jet, which Chinese regulators certified on Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t looked at that C919. But if it\u2019s as good as the others then why not,\u201d he told Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nation\u2019s aviation agency\u2019s triennial assembly in Montreal, Canada. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, China hailed the development of its first medium-haul passenger jet as the embodiment of the country\u2019s drive towards self-sufficiency, with safety approval awarded to a plane that aims to challenge Western aircraft giants for orders.<\/p>\n<p>The first C919 aircraft, designed to compete with popular single-aisle models made by Airbus and Boeing, will be delivered by the end of the year, state Xinhua News Agency said. <\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear when the plane might be certified by the United States or Europe, opening the way to sales in most foreign markets, but industry analysts say it will be up to a decade before China can seriously tackle the existing Boeing-Airbus duopoly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and Nigeria (have a) very cordial and friendly relationship with mutual benefits,\u201d Sirika said.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, China has loaned billions of dollars to Africa to build railroads, power plants and highways as it deepened ties with the continent while extracting minerals and oil.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous nation, is the top importer of Chinese goods, hoovering up $23 billion worth in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s poor transport and power networks have stymied economic growth for decades, holding back the distribution of wealth in Africa\u2019s biggest economy where 40% of people live below the national poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>However, the country is growing its aviation sector, where traffic is now above pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, Sirika said.  The airline is one of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s 2015 election campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Allison Lampert; Editing by Josie Kao)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/nigeria-would-consider-chinas\/attachment\/file-photo-the-third-prototype-of-chinas-home-built-passenger-jet-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI901G8-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI901G8-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL (Reuters) \u2013 Nigeria would consider buying China\u2019s newly-certified C919 passenger jet as it grows the country\u2019s fledgling carrier Nigeria Air to 30 planes by around 2025, Aviation Minister Hadi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}