FAAN DENIES APPROVING BI- CORTNEY;S TERMINAL

THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has denied giving approval for the design of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (Domestic Terminal 2) by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited Lagos.
   In a statement yesterday, FAAN’s spokesman, Yakubu Dati, said: “FAAN’s attention has been drawn to a news story quoting Bi-Courtney Aviation Services as saying that the design of MMA Domestic Terminal 2 was approved by the Federal Government and FAAN after due consultation with their consultants.
  “We wish to state categorically and for the umpteen times that nothing could be further from the truth. The design that FAAN approved was for a terminal costing a total of N3.9 billion.
  “However, without approval from FAAN, Bi-Courtney went ahead of its own volition, to build a terminal different from the one originally approved, the cost of which it put at N38 billion, nearly 10 times the approved cost. There was no way FAAN could have approved a terminal at a cost of N38 billion for a 12-year concession because it did not make sense.”