Airports

Experts Identify Obstacles to Concession of Airports, Insist PPP May not Solve Infrastructure Challenge

Aviation industry stakeholders have identified political uncertainty, policy summersault and high cost implication as barriers to the planned concession of major airports in the country. They dismissed the idea that concessioning Nigerian airports would be the solution to the perennial problem of poor and obsolete infrastructure and insisted that the facilities were not attractive enough […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Minister Backs War against Touting, Extortion at Nation’s Airports

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has reiterated his full support on the war against touting and extortion at Nigeria’s airports and promises maximum punishment for anyone caught in the act. Keyamo who assured that the Tinubu administration would concession the major airport in a very transplant and efficient manner, made this […]

Aviation

Airport Concession: More Promises, Less Action

Nigerians are inundated with several plans by the federal government to concession the country’s airports and bring the private sector to invest in infrastructural development of airport facilities. This has been a sing-song for years but at the end of the day nothing is being achieved and the status quo remains. The former Minister of […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Public Private Partnership Key to Development of Airport Infrastructure, Says Keyamo

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has acknowledged that public-private partnerships are crucial in the sustainability and modernization of airport infrastructure. He disclosed that the Federal Government has secured commitment  from several corporate bodies in the private sector that would soon embark on refurbishing the arrival and departure areas of Wing D at Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos […]

Airports

‘Partnership Key to Airport Infrastructure Renewal’

A former Special Advisor on Investment and Rapid Airport Development to the Minister of Aviation, Dr. Daniel Tarka has said in order to solve the major problem in air transport in Nigeria, which is obsolete infrastructure, the federal government should fully embrace public private partnership (PPP). Tarka who spoke to THISDAY in exclusive interview on […]