*As Ibadan airport now becomes Ladoke Akintola Airport
By KEMI KASUMU
President Bola Tinubu has renamed some federal airports in Nigeria after several prominent Nigerians.
Tinubu announced the renaming of the airports in a memo released on Monday June 26 by the Federal Ministry of Aviation, dated June 1, 2023, and signed by Mrs Joke Olatunji for the Director of Airport Operations.
The memo noted that the President renamed the airports “as part of reforms of the Aviation sector.”
The Maiduguri Airport was renamed after the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari and the Port Harcourt Airport after the late nationalist Obafemi Awolowo, while the Nasarawa Airport immortalised the late founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, Usman Dan Fodio.
Also, the Benin Airport was renamed after the late Oba of Benin, Oba Akenzua II, Ebonyi Airport after the late Senate President Chuba Okadigbo, and the Ibadan Airport after the late Premier of the old Western Region, Ladoke Akintola.
Full list below:
*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 Airport – 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
