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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on Tuesday said the Federal Government’s plan to concession the four major airports in the country might not be feasible until 2019. Mr Olayinka Abioye, General Secretary, NUATE, told newsmen in Lagos that all thorny issues surrounding the concession must be addressed before the exercise. NAN reports that the government had recently appointed transaction advisers to midwife the concession of the Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt airports. Abioye, however, faulted the appointment of the transaction advisers, noting that the aviation unions were not carried along before the announcement was made. “What happened is that the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, unilaterally made the appointment without recourse to the committee he set up for the same purpose, which had some of our members. “The committee is yet to submit its report; so, we were surprised when the announcement was made,’’ he sai...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Liverpool right-back Nathaniel Clyne has withdrawn from the England squad due to injury, national team manager Gareth Southgate revealed on Tuesday. “We’ll be without Nathaniel Clyne,” Southgate told reporters at the St George’s Park national football centre in Burton-on-Trent, central England. “He’s been carrying an injury and that’s why we named three right-backs. We thought that might be a bit of an issue. So we’ll be with Kieran (Trippier) and Kyle Walker.” Southgate did not specify the nature of Clyne’s injury. Clyne’s withdrawal increases the chances of Tottenham Hotspur right-back Trippier winning his first England cap after he was called up for the first time. England play Scotland in a World Cup qualifier in Glasgow on June 10 before travelling to Paris to tackle France in a friendly on June 13. The post Liverpool’s Clyne out of England squad appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2r6Z41B