President @MBuhari has officially commissioned the new International Terminal Building at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) December 20, 2018
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President Muhamadu Buhari has on Thursday, officially commissioned the new International Terminal Building at the Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
President Buhari said the event
represents yet another significant milestone for international air travellers
in and out of the Federal Capital Territory.
The President also said it gives
him “great pleasure to be here for the formal commissioning of the terminal”.
Below is the full text of the
President’s speech at the commissioning of the terminal:
“You will recall that on the 25th
October, 2018, I commissioned Port Harcourt International Airport Terminal.
During the event, the Honourable Minister of State (Aviation) stated that the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Terminal, Abuja would be completed and
ready for commissioning before the end of the year. Today, that promise has
been kept. I wish to commend the Honourable Minister and his team for a job
well done.
With the commissioning of this
Terminal, Nigeria is moving towards achieving and meeting global aviation
standards in facilitation, passenger processing and service delivery in tandem
with international best practices.
This Administration recognises
aviation as a catalyst for economic growth and as such will continue to
encourage and support the actualization of projects that will place Nigerian
Airports amongst the best in the world.
This event today, reflects
Government’s deliberate policy to sustain the development of Nigeria’s
infrastructure. We are gradually closing the infrastructural deficit
bedevilling our country.
I am happy to note the progress
being made in both the airports and sea ports on the implementation of the
Executive Order on the Ease of Doing Business. Government officials manning
these gateways are to sustain the momentum and ensure travellers in and out of
the country have the best of experience as a necessary complement to the
ultra-modern terminal.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport Terminal is the first airport terminal to be connected to rail
transport system in the Country and indeed in the region. This has provided
passengers and other airport users with a choice in the mode of transport to
and from the city centre. I recall taking a ride from the City Metro station to
the Airport on the day the rail line was commissioned.
I wish to assure you therefore,
that Government remains committed to developing Nigeria into Regional air
transportation hub and thereby assuming its leadership in the aviation sub
sector in Africa.
Let me once again appreciate the efforts of the Federal Ministry of Transportation (Aviation), the Government of the Peoples Republic of China and the China Exim Bank for their financial support and the various roles they played leading to the successful completion of this project. Let me also commend the contractor Messrs CCECC for delivering this project on time.
It is therefore, with great
pleasure that I commission the new International Terminal building of Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Thank you and God bless the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
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