 The federal government has threatened to sanction foreign airlines in the country over their refusal to accept Naira payment for flight tickets. The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika made this known at a briefing today after the federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Mohammad Abu Hari. He said intelligence reports indicated that some of the airlines refused to sell in Naira but charged ticket fares in dollars instead in violation of Nigerian laws. It is an opportunity to say that some of the airlines reports are reaching us that they are refusing to sell tickets in Naira. That is our violation of our local laws, they will not be allowed. The higher and the mighty amongst them will be sanctioned if they are caught doing that. NCAEA had been directed to swing into action and once we find any airline violating this we will definitely deal with them. Also they blocked the travel agents from access, they also made only available the expensive tickets and so on and so forth. Our regulators are not sleeping, we are very vibrant Nigerians will have initial authority. Once they found any airline guilty that airline will be dealt with because we need to protect our people, it is according to our agreements to what we have signed and this is according to international convention.