Damilola Oyeyemi
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to inaugurate the newly built international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, today, 22nd March, 2022.
The new international terminal is one of the five terminals being built in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu, in a bilateral arrangement between the Federal Government and the People’s Republic of China.
That of Abuja and Port Harcourt had been completed and inaugurated, while that of Kano had been completed and billed for inauguration soon.
According to a statement issued by the acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, “the new terminal has the capacity to process 14 million passengers per annum”
However, Today’s inauguration is coming after several dates had been set by the Federal Government for the terminal’s completion and inauguration since 2015.