Nigeria’s flagship privately operated airport terminal, Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2, (MMA2) Lagos is embarking on an enormous upgrading of its X-ray machine and air-con techniques for passengers security, safety and luxury.
The Bi-Courtney Aviation Companies (BASL)-operated MMA2,Lagos, stated in an announcement yesterday that it has simply spent about $500,000 within the importation of a sizeable variety of X-ray machines to reinforce and speed up the screening of passengers and cargoes.
BASL is owned by Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN).
Group Company Affairs Supervisor of BASL, Mr. Mikail Mumuni stated within the assertion that “huge sources are additionally being deployed to improve our air-con system for the consolation of passengers as we all the time deal with our prospects as Kings and Queens.”
The BASL spokesman stated the continued upgrading of the amenities is a part of the corporate’s willpower to proceed to provide Nigeria the very best Airport Terminal that’s similar to these obtainable within the developed economies.
“To fulfill our prospects, we had to purchase 50 per cent of the cash required for the importation of the X-ray machines from the parallel market because the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) was solely capable of allocate 50 per cent to us. This, when added to the quantity spent on the air conditioners, is a big funding on our half, particularly at this pandemic interval when companies are at low ebb and contemplating the truth that BASL just isn’t a beneficiary of the Federal Authorities’s COVID-19 Palliatives to the aviation sector,” he stated.
Bi-Courtney Restricted was granted a concession by the Federal Authorities of Nigeria (FGN) to design, construct and function MMA2.
The corporate is required below the concession settlement to switch MMA2 to the FGN after 36 years of operation.
MMA2 was constructed and accomplished throughout the schedule, a uncommon feat in Nigeria’s aviation trade and the terminal has been adjudged the very best within the nation by each the personal and public stakeholders.