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

Mrs Faithful Hope-ivbaze, the spokesperson for FAAN, in a statement in Lagos recently, said the outage occurred at about 11.15 p.m on April 1.

“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 23: 15 hours, Friday, 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.” she said.