Concerns are growing over the state of Nigerian airports and the need for private sector involvement in the management of the airports for better service delivery, improved revenue generation, and increased contribution to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP).
These concerns were further fuelled by a recent report which categorised the nation’s three most important airports as being among the 10 worst in the world.
From the N400 billion said to have been spent by the former minister of aviation, Stella Oduah, on airports remodelling, and another $1 billion being put into aviation infrastructural development by the Chinese Government to the N63 billion reportedly needed by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to build another runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the nation’s capital, concerns have been raised among various strata of the public and reactions have greeted the reports.
While addressing the Senate ad-hoc Committee on Aviation recently, the managing director of FAAN, Mr Saleh Dunoma, said that most of the facilities and equipment at the airports were obsolete as most of them were acquired over 30 years ago. Dunoma was responding to questions from senators on reasons for the rating of the Port Harcourt International Airport as the worst in the world by the Canadian SleepingInAirports.net.
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