The FG is in quite a dilemma! It would have been easier to carry out repairs at night like is being done in some countries, sadly, Abuja has ONLY ONE RUNWAY. If there were two or more runways, arrival and departure of aircrafts would have been easily diverted to the other runways while work is being done on the faulty runway.

Dunno if Kaduna airport will be able to handle the traffic but the Abuja-Kaduna road is in equally bad shape just as the Minna-Abuja road. Who would want to take a flight from Lagos to Abuja Kaduna and then travel for another 2 to 3 hrs on a BAD ROAD?

While the FG is trying to get its head out of this dilemma. I will advise them to prepare for the construction of a second runway at Abuja Airport.

skyo78:


But do they need to close down the airport to make repairs?
They can work gradually at night shifts or sumfin

how do you think a runaway is constructed that you can now use it in the day and work in the night?i

Leopardd:
..
So Buhari wanted to divert Abuja bound flights to his political godson so that Kaduna too will be chopping revenue from federal arrangement.

Nobody is saying anything about the dangers of Abuja-Kaduna road, even the Abuja-Kaduna railway is being monitored by airforce because of the criminals parading on that route.


Buhari, do whatever you want to do in that airport without closing it or diverting the flights to Kaduna.

El-Rufai i sight your arrangee something, e no work......

Hi! Are you the one on ur dp?

ephi123:


Thank goodness some people are still reasoning, rather than that paid agent ranting all over on the first page.

Don't other airports all over the world do repairs? Has anyone ever heard of Heathrow closing down?

fuuls also reason you know but the difference is that what comes out from a fuuls mouth is rubbish. First of all, Heathrow airport has as many as 2 or 3 major runaway. So in case of repairs, others can be used. Secondly, the aviation industry is one of the most safety regulated. Do you expect aeroplanes to be landing and taking off while buldozers are working just like the way it is done in road construction with a diversion sign saying turn left or right, slow down etc? Please get some sense or remove that hatred of Buhari from your mind so you can see clearly. Now on the construction of the runaway proper, what is used is concrete before asphalt is poured. Do you expect the concrete to take a day to cure So you can use it the next day?

Leopardd:
..
So Buhari wanted to divert Abuja bound flights to his political godson so that Kaduna too will be chopping revenue from federal arrangement.

Nobody is saying anything about the dangers of Abuja-Kaduna road, even the Abuja-Kaduna railway is being monitored by airforce because of the criminals parading on that route.

Buhari, do whatever you want to do in that airport without closing it or diverting the flights to Kaduna.

El-Rufai i sight your arrangee something, e no work......

This is daft... Extremely daft!
While we may argue that the size of Kaduna airport wont be able to cope with the number of flights coming in from Lagos, it is the only realistic way/option to have flights come in and get closer to the FCT
My only issue is how we got here, how an international airport like Abuja only has one runway
I fly in and out of Abuja, infact today i still flew in from lagos, and trust me, that run way is extremely bad!
To say it is an arrangement to have a slice of the federal revenue go El-Rufai's way is very stupid tho!
Think!!!!

Enice:
fuuls also reason you know but the difference is that what comes out from a fuuls mouth is rubbish. First of all, Heathrow airport has as many as 2 or 3 major runaway. So in case of repairs, others can be used. Secondly, the aviation industry is one of the most safety regulated. Do you expect aeroplanes to be landing and taking off while buldozers are working just like the way it is done in road construction with a diversion sign saying turn left or right, slow down etc? Please get some sense or remove that hatred of Buhari from your mind so you can see clearly. Now on the construction of the runaway proper, what is used is concrete before asphalt is poured. Do you expect the concrete to take a day to cure So you can use it the next day?

Unfortunately not everyone chooses to apply their sense of reasoning. You are a classic example of that.

Bye Felicia.

kidman96:


Hmm... Madam u can teach people their jobs.


But that's enuff. Hope ur having a great day.

I am. Have a good rest of the day too.

ephi123:


Unfortunately not everyone chooses to apply their sense of reasoning. You are a classic example of that.

Bye Felicia.

cone heads with beans for brain. Thats far worst than anything else. And that is what you have.

Enice:
cone heads with beans for brain. Thats far worst than anything else. And that is what you have.

That's
Far worse

Olodo.

Leopardd:


The executive arm does.

LOL hope they will also need Senate before they also fix all our roads LOL..


Senate are just fooling themselves.

ephi123:


That's
Far worse

Olodo.

you dey correct me abi? I've gat my eyes on you.

Enice:
you dey correct me abi? I've gat my eyes on you.

Yes I dey correct you, wetin you wan do?

ephi123:


Yes I dey correct you, wetin you wan do?

i wan correci you too.

Enice:
i wan correci you too.

Okay oh

skyo78:


But do they need to close down the airport to make repairs?
They can work gradually at night shifts or sumfin

Are you a Civil Engineer?

OFFICIAL336:

If you know how unsafe Kaduna is for int'l flights, you won't be saying this, again nobody shuts down an airport entirely just to repair a runway. God will definitely run your life the way Buhari is administering this country.

If you are a zombie, not all Nigeria are. You can upgrade your script to zombie version 3.0. We careless.

Your constant smuggling of that line where it is not even necessary is not only embarrassing, but depicts low self esteem and paranoia.

Keep drooling in your stupidity. Goodluck

Let me ask you
Why has ABUJA airport runway not been fixed for 20years? You guys think governance is a joke? Do you know how many potholes exist that have broken landing gears of aircrafts on ABUJA runway?
Is it wrong to fix it?
What solutions do you profer?

Is just to come out and criticize money was marked for fixing this runway under Yaradua they ate it, it was marked twice under Jonathan they ate it another person wants to fix it you complain....are you and your likes not enemies of progress

Enice:
stop being a nuisance

Stop switching handles on NL.

Sibrah:
Stop switching handles on NL.

as in? I don't really get you.

banki:

Let me ask you
Why has ABUJA airport runway not been fixed for 20years? You guys think governance is a joke? Do you know how many potholes exist that have broken landing gears of aircrafts on ABUJA runway?
Is it wrong to fix it?
What solutions do you profer?

Is just to come out and criticize money was marked for fixing this runway under Yaradua they ate it, it was marked twice under Jonathan they ate it another person wants to fix it you complain....are you and your likes not enemies of progress

Am not against fixing of the airport. Kaduna relatively unsafe and the airport can't even handle int'l flight.

Why can't they redirect to Lagos and use helicopter service to reconnect to Abj. We should stop playing politics with our security.

mayoor15:
Then what stops the work been done at night and in portion, take a portion every night, regulate when flights come in and go out, put the whole 2.1bn in the project and complete it within 4-5 weeks

HW MANY RUNWAYS DOES D AIRPORT HAVE?

where will plains be landing when work is ongoing in the runway?

free2ryhme:
They are afraid to travel by road to Abuja

not really small thing, if people can travel from East to lagos just to board an international flight 6 to 8 hrs on Highway. What is distance between abuja and kaduna. See our leaders don't want skin pain. No be small oo Nigeria will be better oneday

Ubenedictus:
HW MANY RUNWAYS DOES D AIRPORT HAVE?

where will plains be landing when work is ongoing in the runway?

so you are so dumb to understand what I wrote, maybe you shouldn't have bothered replying, don't bother replying me cos I can see your IQ doesn't match what I can start arguing with... Have a great night rest

Leopardd:


The executive arm does.

unfortunately for u and ur legislative fool that only wants to be seen as being active nd doing d people's bid, the executive never needed their approval. It's just like stopping fashola from performing his duty by closing down abule-egba to put a bridge there because it's a fed. road. it doesn't makes sense. you go talk say I talk am.
They are only pained because it didn't come from them to the executive. Which is their job to remind d executives in a normal society. yeye people. They can't stop it. It's already sealed. they can only rant.

free2ryhme:
They are afraid to travel by road to Abuja

omo them reason the steady kidnapping

OFFICIAL336:

Am not against fixing of the airport. Kaduna relatively unsafe and the airport can't even handle int'l flight.

Why can't they redirect to Lagos and use helicopter service to reconnect to Abj. We should stop playing politics with our security.

You see why I am pained
Listen to yourself....they should redirect the flights to Lagos and then go by helicopter?
Have you seen that most of the critics against this project are enemies......

6weeks closure of the airport for safety reasons is raising so much dust, I just watched channels and discovered that senator hope uzodinma who raised the objection to the project in the senate, was the chairman senate committee on aviation in 2010 when they proposed this project they chopped the money then.....7years later he wants to stop the project , if they had done it then would we have the problems that we have now!

OFFICIAL336:

Am not against fixing of the airport. Kaduna relatively unsafe and the airport can't even handle int'l flight.

[s]Why can't they redirect to Lagos and use helicopter service to reconnect to Abj.[/s] We should stop playing politics with our security.

No, you can not just use helicopter service. It's quite[b] expensive[/b]. How many commercial passengers can a helicopter airlift per day to Abuja before the engines start begging? Besides, if you redirect flights to Lagos, how about travelers planning to leave Abuja to other parts?

I agree people are playing politics with the whole issue. Kaduna airport can find it difficult handling the traffic load, the Abuja-Kaduna roads are bad and even if the road is somehow good it's not an option when convenience for the average flyer/traveler is considered, repairs can not be done on the single Abuja airport runway without shutting down operations. The FG is in much quagmire about the whole situation. Right now, the lesser evil which is Kaduna Airport seems to be their only option.

banki:


You see why I am pained
Listen to yourself....they should redirect the flights to Lagos and then go by helicopter?
Have you seen that most of the critics against this project are enemies......

6weeks closure of the airport for safety reasons is raising so much dust, I just watched channels and discovered that senator hope uzodinma who raised the objection to the project in the senate, was the chairman senate committee on aviation in 2010 when they proposed this project they chopped the money then.....7years later he wants to stop the project , if they had done it then would we have the problems that we have now!

I have you ever been on an international flight? I guess not.

NAIA is the 2nd most busiest airport in Nigeria and redirecting all int'l flights to Kaduna will overwhelm that airport. That airport can't handle int'l flights, and the city itself is relatively unsafe.

Last week, fulani terrorists murdered over 100 Nigerian souls, Boko haram had been dislodged from their base and don't u think they might target Kaduna to proof a point, the shites are equally there, religious tension bw Southern and Northern Kaduna is high, the Abj-Kad road is not even in a better condition.

Kaduna is not safe for this diversion. They should redirect to Lagos and reconnect using helicopter. Like they intend to do between Kad-Abj. If this is not an option, then they should redirect to Minna which is about 151km to Abuja against Kaduna that is 209km.

They can still upgrade without closing the airport entirely.

mayoor15:
so you are so dumb to understand what I wrote, maybe you shouldn't have bothered replying, don't bother replying me cos I can see your IQ doesn't match what I can start arguing with... Have a great night rest

@Ubenedictus asked you a logical question and all you could do was to rain invectives on him.

kevoh:

No, you can not just use helicopter service. It's quite[b] expensive[/b]. How many commercial passengers can a helicopter airlift per day to Abuja before the engines start begging? Besides, if you redirect flights to Lagos, how about travelers planning to leave Abuja to other parts?

I agree people are playing politics with the whole issue. Kaduna airport can find it difficult handling the traffic load, the Abuja-Kaduna roads are bad and even if the road is somehow good it's not an option when convenience for the average flyer/traveler is considered, repairs can not be done on the single Abuja airport runway without shutting down operations. The FG is in much quagmire about the whole situation. Right now, the lesser evil which is Kaduna Airport seems to be their only option.

Kaduna is not even a lesser evil. It shouldn't be an option. That city is relatively unsafe.

Kaduna-Abuja road is not even good and the distance is about 209km. What stops the FG from redirecting to Minna which is about 151Km to Abuja, if Lagos is not an option to them.

I think it is time we stop playing politics with our safety.

Phobia1:

unfortunately for u and ur legislative fool that only wants to be seen as being active nd doing d people's bid, the executive never needed their approval. It's just like stopping fashola from performing his duty by closing down abule-egba to put a bridge there because it's a fed. road. it doesn't makes sense. you go talk say I talk am.
They are only pained because it didn't come from them to the executive. Which is their job to remind d executives in a normal society. yeye people. They can't stop it. It's already sealed. they can only rant.

I think you need to go back to school. The last thing the executive will ever dream of is a war with the legislature. They have the capability to shut down the government in case you don't know. They can cut funding to the aviation sector and the executive will never do shit about that.

If it is as easier as you think, Sariki and Ekweremmadu would av been in prison now. But it is not easy for Buhari.

It didn't come from them to the executive? Lol. Who approved the fund for the executive?

Enice:
@Ubenedictus asked you a logical question and all you could do was to rain invectives on him.

Probably the question wasn't logical enough, it's not by force to comment if you don't get what the earlier poster posted

mayoor15:
Probably the question wasn't logical enough, it's not by force to comment if you don't get what the earlier poster posted

okay, thanks.