The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised for the power outage at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

The Star had earlier reported that scores of passengers were stranded after the departure lounge of the Lagos airport was thrown into complete darkness over a power outage.

However, FAAN, in a statement by its acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, apologised to passengers and other airport users, noting that the power outage was caused by rain.

Hope-Ivbaze added that the outage affected one of the Lagos airport’s feeders and consequently resulted in the temporary disruption of power supply at the D wing of the airport.

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The statement titled, ‘Temporary power outage at MMIA’, read: “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (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,” the FAAN acting General Manager stated.

The Star