FAAN apologizes over power outage in Murtala Muhammed International Airport

Following power outage at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Friday, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised to passengers and other airport users.

 

In a statement by the spokesperson for FAAN, Mrs Faithful Hope-ivbaze, in Lagos on Saturday, the outage occurred at about 11.15 p.m on April 1.

 

“FAAN wishes to apologise to passengers and other airport users that witnessed a temporary power outage at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 23: 15 hours yesterday, April 1, 2022.

 

“The outage, which was as a result of yesterday’s rain, that came with very fierce winds and storms, a natural occurrence, affected one of our feeders, and consequently resulted in the temporary disruption of power supply at the D wing of the airport.

 

“However, our engineers quickly discovered the fault, and liaised with the Ejigbo duty/area control office of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria and together resolved the problem.

 

“Normalcy has since been restored at the affected area,” she said.