Nigeria: Aviation Records Growth With 14.1 Million Passenger Traffic

The new statistics, recently released by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), showed stability, improved safety, robust regulatory oversight, increase passenger volume, more applications and renewals of the Air Operators Certificate (AOC) among others.

According to the new NCAA’s figures, a total of 14.14 million passengers with 222,413 flights used the airport in 2017, compared 2016 figure of 14.9 million passengers with 220,333 flights. The shortfall in passenger traffic was attributed to the six-week closure of the Abuja runway.

Source: All Africa