{"id":240863,"date":"2026-02-02T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/faan-explains-reason-for-lagos-airport-power-failure-apologises-to-passengers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:11:08","slug":"faan-explains-reason-for-lagos-airport-power-failure-apologises-to-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/faan-explains-reason-for-lagos-airport-power-failure-apologises-to-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"FAAN Explains Reason for Lagos Airport Power Failure, Apologises to Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"222\">The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised to passengers and stakeholders over a power outage that occurred at Terminal 1 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"406\">FAAN, which manages the airport, disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X account on Sunday, attributing the disruption to a fault in the terminal\u2019s changeover circuit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"575\">The authority explained that the outage occurred during a power changeover process, prompting the immediate deployment of its technical teams to address the situation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"751\">According to FAAN, electricity supply was swiftly transferred to the secondary grid, while interim backup measures were activated to ensure the rapid restoration of services.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"884\">\u201cWe acknowledge the power outage at MMIA Terminal 1 yesterday. The interruption was caused by an issue with the changeover circuit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"886\" data-end=\"1024\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cWe apologise to all passengers and stakeholders affected by the disruption and any inconvenience it may have caused,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has apologised to passengers and stakeholders over a power outage that occurred at Terminal 1 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos over the weekend. FAAN, which manages the airport, disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X account on Sunday, attributing the disruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[1674,193],"class_list":["post-240863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-faan","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Muritala-Mohammed-Airport-Lagos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}