FG set to re-open Akanu Ibiam Airport after COVID -19 lockdown

The Federal Government has disclosed that the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu State which was closed in 2019 because of ongoing renovation is set to re-open after COVID -19 pandemic.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, stated this to reporters at the weekend.

He also said that one third of the span of Second Niger Bridge had been done while many stretches of Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt highways had been done as well.

These, according to the former Governor of Anambra State, were parts of the many projects being handled in the Southeast by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He disclosed the Akanu Ibiam Airport, which President Buhari approved for rehabilitation at the cost of N10 billion, would be reopened after COVID-19 lockdown.

He noted that laying of fibreglass and binder course for the regulated runway were ongoing already.

He added that the presidential interventions in the project also included new cargo section, new arrival and departure terminal and medical centre-clinic and peri-meter fencing.