Friday, 28 June 2013

FAAN: Why There'll be Power Outage at Abuja Airport

Ms. Stella Oduah

By Dele Ogbodo

While the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah assured Nigerians, on Thursday during her Mid Term scorecard that the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja, Lagos, power supply improvement project was ready for commissioning, the management of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), an agency under the ministry has said, that there would be a disruption of power supply at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The power outage expected to last for three hours, FAAN said was as a result of the system’s maintenance works, which was expected to last untill 3 AM today.

In a statement signed by FAAN's Spokesperson, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, gave a "Notification of a three hours power interruption at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja."

She said FAAN wrote to inform that there would be a system’s Maintenance of the high voltage side of the Terminal Building Power Transformer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. This will result in a three hours power outage/interruption between the hours of 12.00 midnight of 28th and 3.00am of 29th June, 2013. The maintenance, according to her, will not affect Module ‘D'.

While stating that the maintenance work would  not last for more than the three hours, she implored members of the public and passengers to bear with management.

Yakubu said: "Members of the public and passengers are thereby advised to please bear with us."

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