Passengers stranded, lack access to ATM, PoS, BDC

Air passengers plying the Kaduna International Airport (KIA) are facing fresh hurdles as airlines operating at the aerodrome are insisting on only cash transaction.

The newly refurbished airport, which also serves as an alternative to the closed Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, is currentlyoperat without Automated Teller Machines (ATM), Point of Sale (PoS) and Bureau de Change (BDC) outlets to serve international passengers especially.

Some passengers without cash to buy tickets or prior booking arrangements are left stranded at the airport. The development is coming at a time the Federal Government is working to ensure a seamless transition, as the airport is the only route to connect the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which is the seat of the government. Besides, the cash-only syndrome runs contrary to the cashless policy of the economy.


The Guardian learnt that a family of six was among those stranded at the weekend and unable to travel.A traveller, Samson Akinsiku said it was shocking to find airlines rejecting debit cards, and saying there was no PoS.
“There are three of the airlines heading to Lagos almost at the same time, which is good anyway. To buy ticket became the problem. The first said its PoS was not working, the other two said they did not even have at all. And this is supposed to be an international airport?

“I didn’t know how big the shit was until I asked for an ATM and they said there was none around, except if I go to town some 10 to 20kilomatres away,” he said.

Another traveller, Emmanuel, also expressed concerns on services rendered by airlines officials at the airport, who insisted on closing the counter by 4:00 p.m.

Emmanuel, who travelled by rail from Abuja yesterday to catch a Lagos flight, was shocked to find the airline’s counter closed by 4:30p.m. When he insisted on flying, since the aircraft was still on ground and seats available, he was given a bill of N28,000 instead of N16,000 promo fare. Emmanuel got a hand-written boarding pass in exchange for the N28,000.

When asked why the airline had no PoS and the counter closed early, an Arik Air official said it was the norm around there.“That is how we operate here. We don’t use PoS. You either bring your money or forget it,” the official fired back.

The Communications Manager for Dana Air, Kingsley Ezenwa said the development was unusual and they were doing everything possible to go cashless in Kaduna by today or tomorrow.

“We have been on this for a while. But it is the banks that kept delaying us. We pushed them all through last week to put the necessary things in place. We know its importance to making passengers have seamless travel experience and we will stop at nothing to have the PoS option working. If not tomorrow (today), then Tuesday latest,” he said.

The Spokesperson of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Henrietta Yakubu, also confirmed that the banks were in the process of beginning operations at the airport, to support transactions, whether cash or cashless.

Yakubu assured that the likes of Zenith, Guaranteed Trust Bank (GTB) and First Bank were due to begin operations and open ATM facilities this week.
It was also learnt yesterday that the Nigeria International Trade and Investment Conference (NITIC) 2017 scheduled to hold this month in Abuja has been postponed.

The organisers, Africa International Trade and Development Trust, said the postponement was due to ongoing repairs on the runway of the Abuja airport.

The conference with the theme “Multiple Frontiers: Moving Away From Oil” is aimed at bringing local and international stakeholders together to discuss international trade and investment in the non-oil sector, focusing on agribusiness, manufacturing and financial services.

The event endorsed by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development initially scheduled to hold this month at the NAF Conference Centre in Abuja would now take place in June at the same venue.

The spokesperson for the organisers, Sand Mba Kalu said: “Efforts to convince registered participants and embassies to use the Kaduna International Airport were not successful. We have talked to several of them but they seemed not interested in coming through Kaduna airport. So, the only option was to postpone the event to June when renovation work at the Abuja airport runway would have been completed.”

Meanwhile, the United Nations Aviation School Project has commenced the training of all Aviation Security (AVSEC) personnel in Nigeria.The training, The Guardian learnt, is to effectively mitigate the threat posed to civil aviation by terrorist organisations around the world. It will also provide a key element for a robust national aviation security policy to meet global standards in infrastructure, safety and security.

The initiative would enhance the capacity within the UN system to help interested member states to implement the multiple dimension of countering terrorism.

The 120-day event tagged: ‘’Train the Trainer’’ is simultaneously ongoing in Lagos and Abuja.The UN-initiated programme comprises 34 aviation security personnel from both Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). While NCAA has four, FAAN which provides security surveillance at all the airports has 30 participants.

The Spokesperson of the NCAA, Sam Adurogboye, confirmed that a total of 25 countries were considered and Nigeria was chosen for the pilot training.

http://m.guardian.ng/news/airlines-at-kaduna-airport-insist-on-cash-payment/

Is that all?

Nigeria is moving towards the tendency of becoming a zoo under buhari

which way Nigeria?

BUHARI na bad market/bad luck

What a country,but no country is perfect..usa is the highest debtor in the world


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

Nigeria and crippled airlines

...but why now? This should be an opportunity for the financial institutions to rush-in and save this country from this awful mess.

Imagine a so called international airport does not have an atm. Nigeria, a country where you find atms only at the banks. Wouldn't it have been better to just build another runway at abuja airport so that there'll be two instead of this makeshift kaduna airport? Even nigeria herself don tire for nigerians. And for the record, this is the most useless and clueless govt ever.

Sometimes i wonder if all this our so called politicians always go blind when they land in other country's airport. MMA is a total eyesore, i just cant imagine what the all this thieves turned nigeria into... Giant of Africa my ass, ordinary Kenya airport be like Grandpa to MMA

When asked why the airline had no PoS and the counter closed early, an Arik Air official said it was the norm around there.“That is how we operate here. We don’t use PoS. You either bring your money or forget it,” the official fired back

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The Communications Manager for Dana Air Kingsley Ezenwa said the development was unusual and they were doing everything possible to go cashless in Kaduna by today or tomorrow.

Seems Dana Airline is the most responsible airline in Nigeria now. Arik annoys me with her rude workers.

Na wah!

coolestchris:
What a country,but no country is perfect..usa is the highest debtor in the world

no country is perfect but nigeria is the worst. Don't even compare usa with nigeria. Besides you sound like someone who hasn't been outside nigeria. Do you need a perfect country for you to privade atm in an international airport?

This is pure lies very likely manufactured by BIAFROGS as the Kaduna airport is by no means an aerodrome this was the same airport used by both Christian and Muslims s on pilgrimage it also serve the Peugeot automobile when the factory was the place producing Peugeot cars for not just Nigeria but west africacustmers in bringing In the knocked down components of thier cars !
In short its a lie ; fit only for nairaland where biafrogs share thier f raustration daily !-

CROWNWEALTH019:
BUHARI na bad market/bad luck

na so we see am | a whole international airport not havin atm or pos | chai there is God

Go and kee yourself na...no go die for Nigeria wahala

izombie:
no country is perfect but nigeria is the worst. Don't even compare usa with nigeria. Besides you sound like someone who hasn't been outside nigeria. Do you need a perfect country for you to privade atm in an international airport?

jimmyero:
Can one still book ticket online?

You ask this one o. You dey hear payment on cash and you still dey ask booking online? HahahaHahaha

Proper preparation prevent poor performance. Kaduna as airport is a mess. Shame to this government.

Everything in this nation is just something else. Why can't we make provision for things at the right time??

Hmm

oweman:

This is pure lies very likely manufactured by BIAFROGS as the Kaduna airport is by no means an aerodrome this was the same airport used by both Christian and Muslims s on pilgrimage it also serve the Peugeot automobile when the factory was the place producing Peugeot cars for not just Nigeria but west africacustmers in bringing In the knocked down components of thier cars !
In short its a lie ; fit only for nairaland where biafrogs share thier f raustration daily !-

Go check the write up again and see if it's a personal opinion.. Don't be delusional because you're a diehard fan but rather dish out facts

How about if those that went on pilgrimage actually paid cash would you have known??

Better still you would have gone to confirm in order to discredit the news rather than spewing the thrash you just did

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2cato:
Nigeria is moving towards the tendency of becoming a zoo under buhari

And you think you are making sense with this juvenile assertion

What more can I say?

Too bad for travellers, it will now increase arm robbery on the highway knowing fully well that travellers are likely to have huge cash..

This ATM $ POS issue should be addressed immediately..

In dis modern age,pls KD airport should be reminded dat dis is 2017