Worst Airport in Africa

Three Nigerian airports have been rated among
the worst in Africa. While Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, Lagos, is voted the 10th
worst in Africa, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport, Abuja, and Port Harcourt International
Airport, Port Harcourt were ranked the seventh
and the sixth worst airports on the continent.
Other airports with dismal performance in 2014
are Khartoum International Airport, Sudan (first);
Kinshasa N’djili International Airport, Democratic
Republic of the Congo (second) among
others.This was contained in a survey conducted
by The Guide To Sleeping in Airports, the website
that documents information on airports and the
people who sleep in them.In a statement by the
website, voters submitted stories as they relate to
unfortunate airport experiences across the
continent. “From dirty floors and bathrooms to
the regular request for bribes, travellers were
unimpressed with the airports that made it onto
this year’s worst airports in Africa list.
FAAN spokesperson, Mr. Yakubu Datti, has,
however, dismissed the result of the survey,
saying that it could not be accurate.In a
telephone interview, Datti said other organisations
had positively rated Nigeria airports. “I am just
arriving from an event where improvement of
Nigerian airports has been applauded,” he said.He
promised to provide data that would counter the
result of the survey, but he did not do so until
press time.