FG approves concession of Kano, PH airports

The Federal Government on Tuesday says it has approved the concession of Kano and Port Harcourt airports, as well as transaction advisers for the process.

Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known while speaking on the certification of Nigerian airports at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja.

Last week Monday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said that the Federal Executive Council had approved the concession of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.

The Vice President did not mention the Kano and Port Harcourt airports.

Sirika, while commenting on the latest certification of the MMA by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, noted that FEC had also approved the concession of both Kano and Port Harcourt airports.

However, workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Tuesday morning disrupted activities at the MMA to protest against the proposed concession of the Lagos and Abuja airports.

The protest was led by the National Union of Air Transport Employees, National Union of Pensioners and Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria.

The workers described the planned concession as an illegal act of selling off of the airports to people who were unknown to them, when they stormed the Freedom Square leading to the entrance to the FAAN headquarters in their hundreds as early as 8am.

In Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, scores of aviation workers on Tuesday also protested against the planned concession of some airports by the government.