 The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika has announced that the new National Carrier is expected to commence operation by the first quarter of 2022. Sirika disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing state-house correspondence after the federal Executive Council meeting. He explained that the new National Carrier is long overdue and the private sector on airline will be in operation by early 2022 with possibly cheaper rates. He added that the new National Carrier is expected to be a viable airline and is potentially poised to cater to millions of travellers in Nigeria and Africa. And after speaking with the National Carrier, thank you very much for the question. It is still on top, top, top gear. We are coming back to council hopefully within the next two weeks to present the memo on the National Carrier. We went to council to approve the outline business case, outline business case for the Carrier. And then the council raised some questions and asked us to go and fair the memo again and bring it back. So once it comes back and the outline business case is approved by council, then of course we will now go to the full business case which is now going to the market and then you know establishing the National Carrier. It is our intention to have the National Carrier running in 2021, which is this year, unfortunately due to COVID, which took the greater part of last year since March last year, activities are almost impossible. This in itself, though negatively affected civil aviation, in terms of establishment of the National Carrier, it makes its much, much, much better time to establish a Carrier than before. Of course for obvious reasons, we now have access to the equipment that they will come faster to us. Deliveries of the aircraft will be faster. Perhaps even the rates might be cheaper and so on so forth. So we will go to council on that and then we will further brief you. But it's on top gear and we needed more than yesterday.