VIDEO: Lagos International Airport Suffers Sudden Blackout As FAAN Offers Explanation

• Travellers at the Lagos International Airport were left stranded for a few minutes on Saturday.

• The situation arose as a result of a sudden blackout that crashed operations for a few minutes.

• Some of the travellers knocked the apparent poor management of the airport.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has offered an explanation for the sudden blackout at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos State on Saturday evening.

The authority said the blackout was caused by the failure of the airport’s automatic switchover, adding that its engineers were working to fix and restore power supply at the airport.

The aviation agency made the disclosure in a post on its official X handle while confirming the incident on Saturday evening.

A video had gone viral on social media, capturing the sudden power outage at the airport.

The incident had left travellers in the dark for about three minutes, eliciting several reactions from travellers and store owners who mocked the state of infrastructure at the facility.

Responding to the situation, FAAN explained that the incident happened during the process of switching power sources after losing electricity from the national grid.

The agency said it was working hard to restore the supply, adding that alternative sources were currently being used.

“We experienced a 2-3 minute outage at Murtala Muhammed International Airport yesterday, February 2nd 2024 while switching over to our backup power supply after losing power from the Grid,” FAAN wrote on X.

“The electrical team has identified the challenges with the automatic switch over and is working judiciously to restore this immediately.

“We have put a plan in place leveraging the alternative sources of power to ensure we do not have a recurrence.”

Similarly, Olubunmi Kuku, the substantive Managing Director of FAAN, expressed regret over the blackout.

“We regret the power outage that occured at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, on February 2, 2024,” she said.

The FAAN boss said the agency had “an unexpected hiccup when we tried to switch to our backup power supply & automatic switchover had a little trouble.”

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