Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika has said that the relocation of operations of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to Kaduna would cost over N1.1 billion.

Sirika while briefing the senate on the logistics implication of the relocation said that the ministry had taken into account relevant agencies that would be deployed to facilitate the relocation.Recall last week, the Senate could not reach a conclusion with the ministry as issues such as the cost of the relocation could not be answered.

However, while briefing the lawmakers on Tuesday, Sirika said that the relocation will gulp N1.134 billion.

Of the amount, the Nigerian Railway Corporation is to gulp N100,326,400, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) will take N237,247,216.21 while the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) will take up N325,000,000.

A total of N358,517,700 million was allocated to the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigeria Immigration Service is to take N29 million Naira.

The ministry is also going to hire the buses of the Federal Ministry of Transportation for N84 million naira, which brings the total figure to N1.134 billion.

The Abuja Airport is expected to be closed for six weeks from March 8.

However, many of the senators who spoke still expressed displeasure with the closure of the airport stressing that it could be done without total closure of the airport.


Source:
http://www.ajayiwrites.com/2017/01/relocation-of-abuja-airport-to-cost.html

God bless my country ooo

How much will it cost to build a new one?

See more pictures here...

http://www.ajayiwrites.com/2017/01/relocation-of-abuja-airport-to-cost.html

Confused set of people.. people are hungry you're relocating airport for over a billion naira.. what happened to the current location?

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NNVanguard:
Until we citizens begin to protest and fight against all these inflated project Costs, the government will continue to take us as zombies and irrational beings.

God save Naija

What steps have you taken yourself.

Until we citizens begin to protest and fight against all these inflated project Costs, the government will continue to take us as zombies and irrational beings.

God save Naija

OK

What's the essence of the relocation? Will it get us out of depression

Nonsense. Waste of Tax payers money

Dis is crious..

Let me go price my kids school fees

Please how much is a new airport

how much will it cost to build a new one, plus was this amount budgeted for?

Why the relocation
Maybe it is one of the measures to get us out of recession. Who knows You never can tell

My God help us.

Funnicator:
Nonsense. Waste of Tax payers money

A plane crash due to a worn out runway at Abuja would be an even greater waste of taxpayer money....and private money too...don't you think?

Nigeria and wasting of money, instead of wasting that huge some cant u people build a good factory that will he producing toot pick or matches, or a ruce farm or cassava farm. Which way nigeria

SexyBabe001:
God bless my country ooo

How much will it cost to build a new one?


Lalasticlala

So you're first to comment on your own thread

THEY JUST WANT to indirectly make kaduna airport an international airline hub .....that just it

Abbey2sam:
Please how much is a new airport

bart10:
Thieves...haba! How much be new airport sef?

Approximately $3-5 billion....and as high as $20-40 billion.

Source: Quora (you need to be a member to read the full article...membership is free though)

Make una give me the money I go help una carry the airport for head to wherever una want

now we can all see the reason why buhari contested for the election

he is trying to make the north a big power house

Thieves...haba! How much be new airport sef?

OK.... continue

Buhari And Apc Are Too Blind To See That 2019 Is Around The Corner. Nigerians Are Patiently Waiting For Them With A Big Sack Letter.

Hmm... okay

Buhari and El rufai are trying to cash in on us

Why not construct another runway in Abuja airport instead of relocating and upgrading another airport

Are we not in recession again?

Na wa o!

How do they plan to tackle that serious hold up in kawo?

How is moving the airport to kaduna better


They haven't even told us how much they plan to spend to upgrade the kaduna -Abuja Road too


God help us with this funny president

just a thought , if they move it to Kaduna ...will they move it back to abuja ?

Someone is trying realy hard to make Money here . Why can't they replace the run way in sections or build a new one along th old one .I been there they got space.

Runaway:
how much will it cost to build a new one, plus was this amount budgeted for?

Airport? As high as $33billion.....or as low as $900billion (King Shaka international airport, South Africa).

Runway: $5-15million (to build a new one)

Source: Quora website again.

ichito:
What's the essence of the relocation? Will it get us out of depression

It would prevent bad accidents from happening at the Abuja Airport due to a bad and wornout runway.

And air accidents cost millions