FG to re-open Enugu airport after COVID-19 lockdown

The Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu State, which was closed in 2019 because of ongoing renovation by the Federal Government, is to be re-opened at the end of COVID -19 pandemic.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, stated this to reporters at the weekend.

He also said that one third of the span of Second Niger Bridge had been done while many stretches of Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt highways had been done as well.

These according to the former Governor of Anambra, were part of the many projects being handled in the South East by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He disclosed that the Akanu Ibiam Airport, which the President Buhari approved for rehabilitation at the cost of N10 billion, would be re-opened after COVID-19 lockdown.

Ne noted that laying of fiberglass and binder course for the regulated runway were ongoing already.

He added that the presidential interventions in the project also included new cargo section, new arrival and departure terminal and medical centre-clinic and peri-meter fencing

On the lingering strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ngige said the leadership of the union was deceiving its members.

The Minister said IPIS was the main reason ASUU embarked on strike. He said there is no where in the world where that employees dictated to employer how to pay them.