President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday inaugurate the newly built international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.
Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in a statement issued on Monday said the new Lagos International terminal had the capacity to process 14 million passengers per annum.
“It is built on a landmass of approximately 56,000 square metres, and it has 66 check-in counters,” she stated.
“Other facilities in the terminal include five baggage collection carousels, 16 immigration desks at arrival, 28 immigration desks at departure, eight security screening points and six-passenger boarding bridges, out of which two has already been installed.
“It also has two food courts, four premium lounges, 22 guest rooms and spa, 16 airline ticketing offices, visa on arrival and port health facility, as well as praying area, more than 3,000 square metres of duty-free space, approximately 5,000 square metres of utility space, among others.”
FAAN said the new terminal was expected to generate about three thousand direct and indirect jobs, as well as enhance passenger facilitation and comfort at the Lagos airport.
The new international terminal is one of the five terminals being built in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu, in a bilateral arrangement between the Federal Government and the People’s Republic of China.
The ones in Abuja and Port Harcourt had been completed and inaugurated, while that of Kano had been completed and billed for inauguration soon.
