- Emergency rehabilitation gulped N10bn
Mixed reactions have trailed the decision of the federal government to shut down the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, Enugu State.
The temporary closure of the airport, the only international airport in the South East, for emergency repairs of the runway, came five years after a similar closure by the then administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari at the time approved the sum of N10bn for emergency repair of the airport including the dilapidated runway and other ancillary works.
Following the completion of the runway repair which was asphalted, former minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, reopened the runway, bringing relief to the South East which had endured the…










