Why we Moved Company Headquarters to Lagos – FAAN

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has defined the relocation of its cooperate headquarters from Abuja to Lagos.

In an announcement issued by the Director, of Public Affairs and Client Safety, Obiageli Orah, the Authority famous that the Abuja location had no workplace area to comprise the actions of the company.

As well as, Orah defined that the Minister determined to cease this waste of public sources and rip-off on the general public purse because the Authority can be liable to pay them obligation tour allowance as a result of technically they’re understanding of station as their official posting is to Abuja.

Additionally, the Minister mentioned that 60% of the actions of the company are finished in Lagos and it’s only applicable for the headquarters to be in Lagos.

“FAAN needs to tell Nigerians that following large consultations by the brand new Administration of FAAN with stakeholders, which additionally concerned the Unions, it was agreed that this was in the most effective curiosity of the Authority and the nation for now for the next causes:
“These affected by the choice to maneuver the headquarters to Abuja have since returned to Lagos as there is no such thing as a workplace area for them in Abuja. It was ill-advised within the first place to maneuver the headquarters to Abuja when there was no single FAAN constructing in Abuja to accommodate all of them without delay.
“Having returned to Lagos, the Authority can be liable to pay them DTA (DUTY TOUR ALLOWANCE) as a result of technically they’re understanding of the station as their official posting is to Abuja. The Minister has determined to cease this waste of public sources and rip-off on the general public purse.
“The opposite choice open to the Authority was abandon the outdated FAAN constructing in Lagos to rot away and to make use of its scarce sources to hire an workplace area in Abuja for Thousands and thousands of Naira of public cash when in precise truth greater than sixty per cent of its actions are in Lagos given the large passenger quantity of the Lagos airports. The stakeholders and the Minister determined towards that and to avoid wasting the nation this waste,” the Authority outlined.
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) which was established in 1976 because the Airports Authority of Nigeria.
Nonetheless, the Civil Aviation reform of 1995 introduced in regards to the realignment of among the functionalities of NAA in addition to the renaming of NAA to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN.

The Authority is accountable for overseeing the operation and upkeep of all Federal Airports.

The Authority’s headquarters was as soon as positioned in Lagos. Nonetheless, in 2020, the previous President Muhammad Buhari moved it to Abuja.
Reacting to the relocation, the authority mentioned the next,

“Abuja continues to have full operational workplaces and the Authority has not scaled down operations in Abuja one bit. It’s simply the technical determination of the place the Authority has its ‘company headquarters’ that has been taken with out affecting the construction of operations as they’re for now in each cities.
“Within the close to future, when befitting company buildings have been constructed for the Authority in each Lagos and Abuja, a remaining determination will likely be taken as to the situation of the everlasting headquarters, relying on the exigencies of the time.”