airport will be reopened on the 19th of April, 2017.
“This is
runway 22 where the work terminates. Remember work started from the other end
which is runway 04. You can see that we have finished asphalting and we are at
96 percent completion.
“The marking
of the runway and lighting are going on simultaneously. This is three to four
days work and we still have about eight days to go. We are happy and we are on
course.”
The minister
also talked about a new technology used for the runway which will not retain
rain water and another, where glass glide is put in the process of constructing
the runway to reinforce it, to give it extra strength and prevent cracks.
“This is the
first time any Nigerian runway is being treated with such material and that
material is a 50 tonner.” He said.
At the
moment, all Abuja-bound traffic is diverted to the recently upgraded Kaduna
International Airport (KIA).
A lot of
activities have also resumed ahead of next Wednesday reopening of the airport.
Kingsley
Nwokoma, President, foreign airlines association in Nigeria, said, “In a
civilised country, if they give you a date people will work with that date. But
since the minister has put his job on the line, we are confident that flights
will start in Abuja after next week."
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