FAAN Reveals Cause Of Power Outage At MMIA, Tenders Apology

By LOVETH AZODO, Lagos

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has revealed the cause of the power outage at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 2315hours yesterday, April 1, 2022.

The Authority revealed that the incident was as a result of rainfall which came with a fierce wind on Friday, April 1

FAAN Made the revelation in a statement signed by its Ag. General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mrs. Faithful A. Hope-Ivbaze.

It stated “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) the wishes to apologise to passengers and other airport users that witnessed a temporary power outage at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 2315hours 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,” it stated.