The best airports are determined by their facilities, infrastructure, flight schedules, and load handling capacity. The quality of the runways and management of traffic are additional factors that contribute to making an airport great.

These can either be domestic or international airports. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria operates most of the country’s airports. The international ones offer immigration and customs services for their international passengers. They can accommodate heavier aircrafts on their runways. Of the 27 major airports in the country, the best ones are mostly international.

The domestic airports have lesser traffic and are much smaller. Despite that, some of them have made it to the list of the 10 best Nigerian airports:

Nigerian International Airports
There are five international airports in Nigeria. Apart from passenger services, they also provide freight services.

Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Murtala MUhammad

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport is located in the capital of Lagos, Ikeja. It operates passenger planes as well as cargo flights- both domestic and international. It is the busiest airport in the country. Some of the biggest players in the aviation industry operate their flights from here. These include:

Ethiopian Airlines
Air France
British Airways
Air Peace
Egypt Air
Aero Contractors
The airport is named after Murtala Muhammed, former military head of state. It has been in operation since World War II. It is also home to the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, the organization that manages 26 of the 31 airports in the country.

Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
Mnamdi airport

Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is based in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. It owes its name to the first President of the country, Nnamdi Azikiwe. The new terminal building at the airport, built in 2018, can cater to approximately 15 million passengers annually. It is home to the head office of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.

International and domestic airlines share a common runway at the Abuja airport. Its runway was shut for operations in 2017, for repair works and has been in great condition ever since. The airport has flights operating to major destinations like:

Paris
Lome
New York
Addis Ababa
Abidjan
Istanbul
Frankfurt
Niamey
Dakar

Margaret Ekpo International Airport
Margaret Ekpo

Margaret Ekpo International Airport serves Calabar, the capital city of the state of Cross Rivers in Nigeria. It was named after Mrs. Margaret Ekpo, a woman activist who dedicated her life to the services of the country. The official inauguration of the airport happened in 1983 by former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari.

There are six different flights on two routes from this airport:

Calabar to Abuja
Calabar to Lagos
Benin Airport
Benin-airport

Benin Airport is one of the oldest airports in Nigeria and serves Benin, the capital of Edo. It is located about 2-km from the Benin kingdom, at Ogba. The runway runs through the central part of the city. It was constructed by the Public Works Department in 1956 and underwent up-gradation from 1975 – 1978, post which, it was taken over by the Nigerian Airports Authority.

The major destinations connected by the Benin Airport are:

Air Peace – Abuja and Lagos
Arik Air – Abuja and Lagos
Aero Contractors – Lagos

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