Airport tollgates: FAAN sets to enforce new order

Olubunmi Oluwaseun Kuku, the managing director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has begun an awareness campaign to ensure that all airport users are well-informed about the new policy on access gate fees.

The campaign is in response to the recent directive by Festus Keyamo, the minister of aviation and aerospace development, mandating all citizens to pay access gate fees at all 24 airports nationwide.

The FAAN MD affirmed that implementing this mandate would address one of the key revenue leakages the new management was determined to eliminate.

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She commended President Bola Tinubu and the minister for helping to give vent to the use of technology to shore up revenue, prevent leakages, and reduce the abuse of privileges by VIPs.

“FAAN is poised to leverage technology to intensify its revenue drive. The new mandate also provides some protection for FAAN staff, who are often bullied and railroaded by VIPs and military personnel.”

Kuku said the implementation of the E-tag regime in Lagos and Abuja international airports and the non-exclusion of VIPs in the payment for access gate fees at all airports in Nigeria was immediate.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.