Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by adamkkk: 5:20am On Aug 04, 2025

I knew that post by sowore was a sponsored post to market this plan

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by OPICANTO2223: 5:21am On Aug 04, 2025

Being highly ineffective is a killer. When a nation chose to rigged in a drug baron or el chappo. That's what you get.

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by bdon123(m): 5:22am On Aug 04, 2025

Maxymilliano:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/why-were-spending-n712bn-to-renovate-lagos-airport-kayamo/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL8LfJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHurZehIVyDeQAmYA1UA7tnKEpFUGUoRhQYeb6RIT5PfnuQzEC86VjSh_RmzP_aem_iAw4t8oTANbAuiJwHExeAg

In other words subsidy was removed n d funds saved used to build infrastructure only in lagos.Nice one

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by deltateam: 5:23am On Aug 04, 2025

Jorussia:
We have to be very careful the way we make comparisons.The new airport in Istanbul that was opened in 2018 cost over 11 billion dollars.When Buhari announced $500M loan for 4 airports renovations i knew nothing world class would come out of project.I agree our politicians including Keyamo are thieves,but that Lagos airport total overhaul can't cost below $1bn.

If they don't use Aboki builders, pay them 2 million naira and pocket the rest.

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by bdon123(m): 5:23am On Aug 04, 2025

SalamRushdie:
Changi Airport Singapore is the most beautiful airport on earth, it was built 6 year ago for 1.5 billion dollars yet Keyamo and APC want to renovate our tiny ugly airport for 500 million dollar ..the way we love to waste money ehhh

I was there last week....its very beautiful

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Konquest: 5:24am On Aug 04, 2025*

Maxymilliano:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/why-were-spending-n712bn-to-renovate-lagos-airport-kayamo/

Lagos Airport Terminal: 'It Is Not Refurbishment, We Are Rebuilding It'– Keyamo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJqVJXrRPw
Channels Television • August 3 2025

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Rindo69: 5:28am On Aug 04, 2025

You dont need to tell us why, Festus!

We know election is close, Ganduje has been put in FAAN as board chairman and you have aspirations to be Governor.

Another other thing wey una wan read, make una write am yourself.

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by bdon123(m): 5:28am On Aug 04, 2025

Jorussia:
We have to be very careful the way we make comparisons.The new airport in Istanbul that was opened in 2018 cost over 11 billion dollars.When Buhari announced $500M loan for 4 airports renovations i knew nothing world class would come out of project.I agree our politicians including Keyamo are thieves,but that Lagos airport total overhaul can't cost below $1bn.

Oga they will loot half that sum.hav u ever been to that istanbul airport?m sure u havent.it handles 200million passengers yearly giving u estimate by size.most people fly tru istanbul without visa.On d other hand,lagos airport is not planned that big bt extremely expensive.dont compare d two.no matter wat u do,lagos airport wont get to half d size of istanbul xcept if lagos airport us relocated to ibadan or somewhere elze wit land mass

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Konquest: 5:38am On Aug 04, 2025*

SalamRushdie:
Changi Airport Singapore is the most beautiful airport on earth, it was built 6 year ago for 1.5 billion dollars yet Keyamo and APC want to renovate our tiny ugly airport for 500 million dollar ..the way we love to waste money ehhh

The Terminal 1 of the Lagos International Airport (MMIA) is being REBUILT and it would be completely stripped down NOT renovated as the title of this OP's post suggests! The original newspaper article and the video interview featuring Fetus Keyamo right BELOW CLEARLY state this FACT.

Second, the MMIA is the primary airport which receives more annual international passenger traffic than any other in Nigeria and it's a total disgrace that Terminal 1 is looking so run down like that after years of neglect since it was built and opened for passenger traffic in 1979. I remember flying through that Terminal 1 back in the day from the early 1980s and the facilities were OK. NOW is the time to rebuild it. Again, this is NOT a renovation as IRRESPONSIBLY suggested in the Tribune newspaper headline.

Lagos Airport Terminal: 'It Is Not Refurbishment, We Are Rebuilding It'– Keyamo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJqVJXrRPw
Channels Television • August 3 2025

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by anonimi: 5:52am On Aug 04, 2025

Maxymilliano:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/why-were-spending-n712bn-to-renovate-lagos-airport-kayamo/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL8LfJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHurZehIVyDeQAmYA1UA7tnKEpFUGUoRhQYeb6RIT5PfnuQzEC86VjSh_RmzP_aem_iAw4t8oTANbAuiJwHExeAg

He is just telling us why ebilokan is abandoning road construction in the north and using the money to refurbish the Lagos airport, which has a new terminal that a northern President Buhari and south south minister Amaechi built.

How can ebilokan be so tribal, divisive and clueless huh

etokhana:
@Adamu Lawal Usman (Kaduna Central Senator)

Renewed agony

You abandoned Abuja -Kaduna road a very important road that connects the economic growth of the North and Southern Nigeria, you are spreading over 700 Billion naira on an existing airport .

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/198sr1BWEy/

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by anonimi: 6:00am On Aug 04, 2025

Jorussia:
We have to be very careful the way we make comparisons.The new airport in Istanbul that was opened in 2018 cost over 11 billion dollars.

When Buhari announced $500M loan for 4 airports renovations i knew nothing world class would come out of project.I agree our politicians including Keyamo are thieves,but that Lagos airport total overhaul can't cost below $1bn.

Does Istanbul lack pipe borne water in all households, such that they are drinking shitty water in their city with a world class airport?

Moreover, did Buhari not build a new airport in Lagos?

What is Stockholm Syndrome huh

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=mes_capstones;Ensuring

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Apel147(m): 6:27am On Aug 04, 2025

Your state governor can also redesign or build one that is bigger and better so as to attract foreign investors! Lagos is open to the sea and would always have certain advantages!

There are several other advantages other state holds over Lagos n they don't see that as monopoly.. e.g no enough land for farming so majority of food in Lagos is imported from other states etc..

Tell your governor to be innovative and stop hating on Lagos State!

Streetinvestor2:
You collect all our money to go spend on airport in lagos so that the monopoly of lagos to other regions continues. Why not the airport in abuja which is the center.
2027 is around the corner. When you spend our collective savings. Your people will be all over social media saying lagos igr is the highest and lagos belongs to SW

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Konquest: 6:42am On Aug 04, 2025*

Maxymilliano:
Festus don hammer

Late President Buhari built that international terminal at Muritala Mohammed international airport Lagos at N106b and commissioned it on 22 may 2022

Now, president Tinubu is renovating the airport with N712b just two years and 3 months after 😲

You posted that Tribune newspaper article and didn't bother to read it properly.

The Terminal 1 (not Terminal 2 which Buhari constructed) of the Lagos International Airport is the one being REBUILT NOT renovated. Terminal 1 was ORIGINALLY opened for international passenger traffic in 1979, and has undergone steady poor maintainance ever since. That's totally bad for Nigeria's image with tourists, international investors, etc, flying into Nigeria.

Festus Keyamo CLEARLY emphasized in the article and video far BELOW that the Terminal 2 of the Lagos International Airport (MMIA) which the Buhari administration constructed wasn't properly situated and had some design flaws hence the airlines refused to move there until he gave a major order.

Second, yesterday, Festus Keyamo was on Channels Television to further emphasize that the older Terminal 1 (which was built in 1979, and which I personally flew through for the first time in the early 1980s) will be torn down and totally REBUILT NOT renovated as the Tribune newspaper headline WRONGLY indicates. That was a very bad piece of journalism from Tribune and other media outlets claiming that it's gonna be renovated.

A lot of the posters attacking this REBUILDING of the MMIA project right from Page 1 are from the South East of Nigeria who are CLEARLY being spiteful, misinformed, and pushing disinformation about plans to embezzle the money. That's outright defamation because right in the article and video BELOW, Festus, being a lawyer that I know, who pays attention to details gave a sequential breakdown of the project cost and the new building design can be seen in the video for Terminal 1 which will now be LARGER than it originally was. Terminal 2 will ALSO be expanded simultaneously with the new Terminal 1 construction. Period.

Lagos Airport Terminal: 'It Is Not Refurbishment, We Are Rebuilding It'– Keyamo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJqVJXrRPw
Channels Television • August 3 2025

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by stainzvill(m): 7:02am On Aug 04, 2025

I no wan vex this early morning abeg

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by grandstar(m): 7:07am On Aug 04, 2025*

Streetinvestor2:
You collect all our money to go spend on airport in lagos so that the monopoly of lagos to other regions continues. Why not the airport in abuja which is the center.
2027 is around the corner. When you spend our collective savings. Your people will be all over social media saying lagos igr is the highest and lagos belongs to SW

What are you saying? I doubt Abuja airport is as run down as that in Lagos as it's much newer.

Lagos is the gateway to Nigeria.

It is a federally owned airport. Why should lagos state fund the repairs? Lagos State is even building its own airport. Stop being petty. This is a non issue.

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by grandstar(m): 7:20am On Aug 04, 2025

SalamRushdie:
Changi Airport Singapore is the most beautiful airport on earth, it was built 6 year ago for 1.5 billion dollars yet Keyamo and APC want to renovate our tiny ugly airport for 500 million dollar ..the way we love to waste money ehhh

Changi wasn't built 6 years ago, and definitely not for $1.5bn.

It would cost at least $10bn.

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by RaptorX: 7:26am On Aug 04, 2025

He is seeing Wike looting with the overinflated conference center renovation, Umuhai with the overinflated coastal road so it is now his turn with the overinflated airport renovation. This criminals will never change from their looting ways.

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by fineboynl(m): 7:35am On Aug 04, 2025

So this is the reason subsidy was removed and the high tax here and there. We destroyed thr economy and use the the gain for misplaced priorities and wastage’s

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Deeprooted: 7:42am On Aug 04, 2025

Wike is now regretting for using just 39 billion for the renovation of international conference center when he would have spent a trillion Naira

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by lincs25(m): 7:49am On Aug 04, 2025

Allocating money for 2027 election campaign in disguise.

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Cromagnon: 7:58am On Aug 04, 2025

Streetinvestor2:
You collect all our money to go spend on airport in lagos so that the monopoly of lagos to other regions continues. Why not the airport in abuja which is the center.
2027 is around the corner. When you spend our collective savings. Your people will be all over social media saying lagos igr is the highest and lagos belongs to SW

when you get there spend on the center abuja

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Advancedman(m): 8:27am On Aug 04, 2025

Swore has finally handled them the soup pot ooo.
Make we say it gone. Otilo

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by ejieddy: 9:01am On Aug 04, 2025

Even if I have my reservations, I believe MMA1 deserves this. Whether it's in Lagos or not. The only challenge is can they deliver it at the said cost, with the intended beauty and modernisation and at prompt schedule?

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by aribisala0(m): 9:10am On Aug 04, 2025

fineboynl:
So this is the reason subsidy was removed and the high tax here and there. We destroyed thr
economy and use the the gain for misplaced priorities and wastage’s

What has this got to do with subsidy ?
Does the airport not generate money ?
If you have a poultry bringing in money won't you feed the chickens and look after the property with maintenance
In Nigeria they just take the money to Abuja leave the property to decay until there I a crisis
Same with the refineries, the port at Apapa the roads to the port etc

If Lagos statehas any sense they should buy the airport

That airport is nearly 50 years old
How much money has it brought in in that time?
In 2023 Customs alone at the airport was 100 billion.in 2024 it was 170 billion

That is not airport revenue just Customs

Hopefully when they spend such money they are thinking business that is expansion to increase capacity for passengers and cargo

If that airport is properly managed it will make more than that in one year

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by Yestogood: 9:39am On Aug 04, 2025

Streetinvestor2:
You collect all our money to go spend on airport in lagos so that the monopoly of lagos to other regions continues. Why not the airport in abuja which is the center.
2027 is around the corner. When you spend our collective savings. Your people will be all over social media saying lagos igr is the highest and lagos belongs to SW

Abuja Airport is coming off a decade of renovation and redesign. If you have visited there in the last 2 weeks, you will have noticed that the new multi level car park is now in use. Furthermore, the departure terminal for international flights is now significantly upgraded. The Lagos airport is far busier than Abuja. That old terminal is long overdue for modernisation.

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by bennybuhari: 9:43am On Aug 04, 2025

Money for 2027 election

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by aribisala0(m): 10:16am On Aug 04, 2025

donleo92:
Oga hope you included your own share.

But my only concern is that must everything revolve around LAGOS

We have other states in Nigeria. Warri, PORTHARCOURT, kano is their.

But this administration is just hellbent on overcrowding lagos for their selfish gains

It is important to separate business from politics

If you heard that the government spent $10 billion on the Bonga oil field or the LNG project in Bonny

would you say
Must everything be about the Niger Delta?
No
Why? Hopefully you understand that it is business and there will be returns
We cannot say because of that government should continue looking for oil in the north to be equitable

So why not think about the airport in the same way
Why so bitter about Lagos

There is no state in Nigeria. NONE that generates as much money as Lagos

Whatever the reason for that is history. It is what it is

Last year at that airport the Nigerian Customs took in close to 200 billion

This is not money from airport operations just Customs

You sound envious and bitter

If there is money to be made then it should be
I would even argue the airport should be sold
Investing money in that airport will bring in more money than investing it in Ilorin or Akure

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Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by koning: 10:38am On Aug 04, 2025

Jorussia:
We have to be very careful the way we make comparisons.The new airport in Istanbul that was opened in 2018 cost over 11 billion dollars.When Buhari announced $500M loan for 4 airports renovations i knew nothing world class would come out of project.I agree our politicians including Keyamo are thieves,but that Lagos airport total overhaul can't cost below $1bn.

N200bn will do it, my friend. Stop using Turkey, Singapore or any Western country as a standard of measure. It's reta.rded.

An electrician or mason in Turkey will be paid $45 an hour for his job. His counterpart in Nigeria is paid between $1.50 to $2 an hour.
Every businessman knows there's a huge difference in labour cost.

Besides most of the building material to be used for the renovation will be locally sourced- wood, glass, electric cables, plumbing materials and cement are locally available in abundance.

60% of that N712bn will be stolen.

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by donleo92(m): 10:52am On Aug 04, 2025

aribisala0:
It is important to separate business from politics

If you heard that the government spent $10 billion on the Bonga oil field or the LNG project in Bonny

would you say
Must everything be about the Niger Delta?
No
Why? Hopefully you understand that it is
business and there will be returns

Thanks for your humble and thoughtful contribution. Like no insults, just straight to the point. I get your point sir. Okay, let me look at the business side and leave the politics alone.

Noted
We cannot say because of that government should continue looking for oil in the north to be equitable

So why not think about the airport in the same way
Why so bitter about Lagos

There is no state in Nigeria. NONE that generates as much money as Lagos

Whatever the reason for that is history. It is what it is

Last year at that airport the Nigerian Customs took in close to 200 billion

This is not money from airport operations just Customs

You sound envious and bitter

If there is money to be made then it should be
I would even argue the airport should be sold
Investing money in that airport will bring in more money than investing it in Ilorin or Akure

Re: Why We Are Spending ₦712 Billion To Renovate Lagos Airport — Keyamo by donmik: 11:00am On Aug 04, 2025

Come o

You said BILLIONS...?

Hmmmm

Heartless beings called some leaders in Nigeria

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