ANTLY living in denial, Nigeria’s aviation authorities have strid

 CONSTANTLY living in denial, Nigeria’s aviation authorities have stridently debunked a new report that ranked the country’s leading airports as being among the worst in Africa. In its 2015 survey, Guide to Sleeping in Airports, a Canadian organisation, rated the airports in Port timesofamerica.info Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos as the first, seventh and 10th worst respectively in Africa. Considering that the survey is a continental initiative, the rebuttals are self-defeatist and meretricious.

The Port Harcourt International Airport in Rivers State has the dubious distinction of also being rated the worst in the world. It is not only about sleeping there, but about corruption, attitude of members of staff, comfort and other indices. Instead of vilifying the report, the Ministry of Aviation should scrutinise it and make fundamental changes where necessary. The weak defence of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria that the Port Harcourt airport is not the dirtiest because it is undergoing r timevinger.org enovation is half of the story. Nigerians who use our airports attest to their poor state.

The assessment is a confirmation of the troubles plaguing the aviation sector in Nigeria. Under Stella Oduah as Aviation Minister, the past administration had controversially taken a $500 million loan in 2013 from the China EXIM Bank to “build four new international ter tincona.com minals and 11 cargo terminals.” Two years after, the airports are not better off. The projects centred mainly on re-modelling. At best, this was superficial, not 

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