The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has tendered its unreserved apology to passengers for the power outage which occurred at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos in the late hours of Friday, April 1, 2022.
FAAN authorities explained that the power disruption at the Airport was due to the heavy rainstorm that affected one of the feeders thereby causing power outage in one of the wings at the airport.
In a statement by its Acting General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Faithful Hope-ivbaze, on Saturday in Lagos, said that the authorities acted swiftly to contain the situation and restore normalcy to the affected area as soon as news of the problem got to them. The power outage occurred at about 11.15 p.m on April 1.
Hope-Ivbaze said that the authority’s engineers quickly discovered the fault and collaborated with the Ejigbo duty/area control office 0f the Power Holding Company of Nigeria to resolve the problem and restore normalcy to the affected area.
“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.’’