Airfield Lighting to be Completed Friday at Abuja Runway

There are indications that work on the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja is almost completed few days to its reopening, as the runway lighting is expected to be completed today.

The Minster of State, Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika while inspecting the final lap of asphalt laying last weekend confirmed that there was already 96 per cent completion of the ongoing rehabilitation and that the airport would be reopened for operations come April 19.

“This is runway 22 where the work terminates and remember the work started from the other end which is 04. You can see that we have finished asphalting and we are at 96 percent completion. Asphalting has completed and the airfield lightings installation has started.  The marking of the runway and the lightings is going on simultaneously,” the Minister said.

He also gave assurance that the runway would not retain water again due to the introduction of new technology.

“The runway will not be retaining water again as it was in the past because of the introduction of new technology,” he said.