Tinubu Renames Borno, Benin Airports, Muhammadu Buhari, Oba Akenzua II

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has renamed some federal airports in the country after some prominent Nigerians.

Maiduguri Airport was renamed after the immediate past Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari while the Benin Airport, renamed after Oba Akenzua II, of blessed memory.

According to statement released by the Federal Ministry of Aviation dated June 1, 2023, and signed by Mrs Joke Olatunji for the Director of Airport Operations on Monday, indicated that the Port Harcourt airport was also renamed after the late Nationalist, Obafemi Awolowo.

The statement stated that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu renamed the airports “as part of reforms of the Aviation sector.”

Nasarawa Airport was renamed to immortalise the late founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, Usman Dan Fodio, Ebonyi Airport after the late Senate President, Chuba Okadigbo, and the Ibadan Airport after the late Premier of the old Western Region, Ladoke Akintola.

Details of the renamed Federal Airports across the country reads thus:

Akure Airport – Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu

Benin Airport – Oba Akenzua II

Dutse Airport – Muhammad Nuhu Sanusi

Ebonyi Airport – Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo

Gombe Airport – Brigadier Zakari Maimalari

Ibadan Airport – Samuel Ladoke Akintola

Ilorin Airport – Gen. Tunde Idiagbon

Kaduna Airport – Hassan Usman Katsina

Maiduguri Airport – Gen. Mumammadu Buhari

Makurdi Airport – Joseph Sarwuan Tarka

Minna Airpor – Mallam Abubakar Imam

Nassarawa Airport – Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio

Osubi Airport – Alfred Diete Spiff

Port Harcourt Airport – Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo

Yola Airport – Lamido Aliyu Mustapha