The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised over the power outage at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The apology was contained in a statement by FAAN’s acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze.
The acting General Manager in the statement which was issued on Saturday said the outage was a result of rainfall.
“The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) 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.”
