President Muhammadu Buhari today inaugurated the new Terminal at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The project was completed on scheduled as the administration promised to inaugurate the project before the end of December 2018.
The president made the promise when he inaugurated the Port Harcourt International Airport Terminal in Rivers on Oct. 25.
Speaking at the event, Buhari assured that the Federal Government would remain committed to developing Nigeria to regional air transportation hub, thereby assuming its leadership in the aviation sub-sector in Africa.
The terminal building has annual passenger capacity of 15 million covering a space of approximately 56,000m2, has 72 check-in counters, five baggage collection carousels, 28 immigration desks at arrival and 16 at departure, eight security screening points and eight passenger boarding bridges.
Other facilities at the terminal are walkway to link the FCT metro rail, additional apron for remote parking of aircraft and linkway to domestic wing.
The Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, said the new NAIA terminal was the second in the series of airport terminals to be inaugurated from the projects funded by the China-Exim bank loan of 500 million dollars with a counterpart funding of 100 millon dollars from the debt management office.
See photos from the inauguration below:
Photos: NAN
