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FAAN closes Enugu airport for two weeks to fix runway

Posted on April 19, 2025April 19, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said will shut down the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu to allow for essential runway maintenance works. According to the agency, the airport would be temporarily closed from April 22 to May 6th, 2025, for runway repairs. FAAN’s Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Mrs. Obiageli Orah in a statement early Saturday, explained that there is a sudden and significant rupture in the asphalt surface at a…

Air Peace suspends flights to Enugu airport over bad runway

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Enugu flights to be operated through Asaba aerodrome Air Peace said it has temporarily suspended flights to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. The airline in a statement by the airline’s Head of Corporate Communications, Dr. Ejike Ndiulo said the suspension of flights to the airport by Air Peace was due to safety concerns of the Enugu airport runway. Ndiulo disclosed that the situation of the Enugu runway had been causing major disruptions to…

FAAN shuts Ibadan airport for upgrade

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Sunday, announced the temporary closure of the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport (SLAA), Ibadan, for upgrade works targeted at improving the infrastructure to an international status. In a statement signed by Mrs. Obiageli Orah, FAAN’s spokesperson, the Authority confirmed that the Federal Government had approved the closure, adding that the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has consequently closed the runway and suspended airport operations in…

Tinubu approves Maiduguri Airport upgrade

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Wole Shadare

…As African Aviation University takes off in Abuja President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the upgrade of Maiduguri Airport to international status. This completed the process of establishing international airports across all the six geopolitical zones of the country. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, announced the development on Thursday via his verified X handle, @SundayDareSD. The move was expected to boost economic activities and enhance regional connectivity in…

Airport encroachment: Tackling overall safety, intrusion threat

Posted on March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 by Wole Shadare

Many of Nigerian airports are poorly fenced leading to massive encroachment into aerodrome premises. While securing an airport perimeter seems daunting, it’s completely doable, writes, WOLE SHADARE .Outside threat While this is a startling fact, it’s reality. Airports are literally the gateway to the world, and they post a high risk of intruders of all kinds including ground, vandalism, technology hacking, air, among others. Airports never sleep, and neither do the potential intruders. Surprisingly, 99% of airport security…

Abuja Airport Runway: Lingering project with no end in sight

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Wole Shadare

The second runway for Abuja airport has lingered for too long with no end in sight for a project whose cost of N534 billion could be regarded as the most expensive in the world after completion with a likely mention in the Guinness World Records, writes, WOLE SHADARE Jinxed? The Abuja Airport’s second runway appears to be jinxed. The plan to give the country’s second busiest airport a second runway has been mired in controversy and…

Ogun Airport: Redefining Aerotropolis possibility

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The Gateway International Airport is 95% completed and should be commissioned in early 2025 bearing no regulatory impediments. It is set to redefine Nigeria’s aviation and economic landscape vision of becoming the country’s first aerotropolis, writes, WOLE SHADARE Airport proliferation In Nigeria, airports are springing up at an alarming rate. Cities of less than 100 kilometres are now been connected by air through aerodromes that state governments are constructing; one as a tool for attracting economic…

Slot: Airport capacity crunch threatens air travel freedom, constraints economies, says IATA

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that the airport capacity crunch is threatening the freedom of people to travel, and constraining economies. With little prospect for airport infrastructure to fully keep pace with growing demand, IATA released a White Paper including proposals for how slot regulations must incentivize airports to generate more capacity from existing infrastructure. The number of airports unable to fully meet the demand for air connectivity and requiring slot coordination using the IATA…

It takes team work, efficiency to run massive airport system like FAAN, says Dati

Posted on November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 by Wole Shadare

Yakubu Dati was the General Manager of Public Affairs of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and a former Commissioner for Information and later Commissioner for Land and Survey, Plateau State. In this interview with Television Continental (TVC) monitored by Aviation Metric on Thursday, he speaks about the giant strides by the Managing Director of FAAN, Mrs. Olubunmi Kuku to improve age-long infrastructure decay at many of the country’s airports, the recertification of the…

FAAN applies strategy to tackle over N3 trillion airport infrastructure deficit

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Olubunmi Kuku said the agency is taking a bigger, bolder approach to fixing decrepit infrastructure at the country’s airports that had been left for so long. She noted that the infrastructure gaps at airports that stakeholders put at more than N3 trillion won’t change overnight. Kuku who spoke at the Business Breakfast Meeting put together by the Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative (ASRTI) in…

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