Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised for the power outage at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos state.
Many passengers were stranded after power outage hit a section of the Lagos especially the departure lounge of the International Airport, Lagos on Friday night.
Watch the power outage video below;
Lagos Airport In Darkness Due To Power Outage
The departure lounge of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was thrown into darkness in the early hours of Saturday as a power outage occurred. pic.twitter.com/0brVE9OPHK
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Speaking about the incident, FAAN apologised in a statement by FAAN’s acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze.
The statement reads;
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.
