Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Saleh Dunoma, yesterday disclosed that the $500 million new airport terminals in Lagos and Abuja would be completed and ready for use by July this year. He further stated that the Ministry of Aviation and Federal Capital Territory are working on integration of the Abuja light rail project with the terminal when completed.

Dunoma stated this at an interactive session with journalists at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. T hrice, FAAN had promised to deliver the project for use, thrice the promise had gone unfulfilled because of circumstances surrounding the project, which range from citing the facility in Abuja airport wrongly, blocking the control tower and other structural defects that are been rectified.

While addressing stakeholders in Lagos last year, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, condemned the new terminals under construction and said that the ones in Abuja and Lagos were wrongly located because they blocked control tower and the fire service.


He, however, assured that the present administration would concession the major airports so that the reasonability of funding and managing them would be taken over from government.

According to him, the airports have had some delays in their deliveries, but that was due to some factors among which were the rise in exchange rate. In 2013, China offered $500 million loan to Nigeria for the building of four airport terminals in Kano, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Lagos in addition to the building of international terminal for Enugu airport.
https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/03/500m-new-lagos-abuja-terminals-ready-july-faan/

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