The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has promised that the state government would make critical interventions at the Port Harcourt International Airport to improve the international acceptance of the facility.
Wike also expressed happiness that Turkish Airlines had commenced international flight to the Port Harcourt International Airport.
The governor made this remarks during a courtesy visit by the new General Manager of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria for South-South and South-East, Mr Felix Akinbinu, to the Government House, Port Harcourt. 
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Wike to improve facilities at Port Harcourt Airport
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has promised that the state government would make critical interventions at the Port Harcourt International Airport to improve the international acceptance of the facility.
Wike also expressed happiness that Turkish Airlines had commenced international flight to the Port Harcourt International Airport.
The governor made this remarks during a courtesy visit by the new General Manager of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria for South-South and South-East, Mr Felix Akinbinu, to the Government House, Port Harcourt.
Wike said the Rivers State Government was committed to making the Port Harcourt International Airport a destination of choice in the country. “I will dualise the access road to the airport from the Owerri Road Junction into the airport. I will also reconstruct the road leading to the VIP lounge at the airport. “The state government will also demolish the existing VIP lounge and construct a befitting lounge. The new lounge will be a storey building. You have made these requests, which I have granted,” he told his guest.
Wike said that in addition to dualising the access road to the airport, the state government would install streetlights on the road.
The governor called on the Federal Government to complete the construction of the Domestic Terminal of the Port Harcourt International Airport.
He said, “In the beginning, I pleaded that I be allowed to intervene in the completion of the local terminal of the airport, but they declined because of politics. Why can’t they complete the construction of the local terminal? Is it because it is Rivers State?”
Credit: Punch News
