The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is set to relocate its corporate headquarters from Abuja back to Lagos.

This is contained in a statement in Abuja by the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, FAAN, Obiageli Orah.

This is years after the minister’s predecessor, HADI SIRIKA, moved the aviation agencies to the nation’s capital.

The statement said the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Kayamo, ordered relocation to curb the waste of public resources.

She said the FAAN management and stakeholders, which also involved the unions, agreed that the action was in the best interest of the authority and the country.

The statement further said it was ill-advised in the first place to move the headquarters to Abuja when there was no single FAAN building in Abuja to accommodate all of them at once.

Orah noted that more than 60 percent of the FAAN activities were in Lagos, given the huge passenger volume of the Lagos airports.

She stated that Abuja would continue to have full operational offices as FAAN had not scaled down operations in Abuja one bit.

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