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FAAN Begins Updating Of Airport Plans
The Federal Airports Au
thority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said that it has began the updating of its airports plans internally to make it usable for urgent land use considerations.
The General Manager, Land, Water and Survey of FAAN, Surveyor Aderemi Aromiwura disclosed this while interacting with newsmen at the Port Harcourt International Airport. He said that the updating will be done systematically to cover all the airports.
“We intend to map Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano. We have done extensive work in Abuja and Lagos already, and in the current 2016 budget we proposed that only four airports be mapped.
“The survey plans of the airports are quite obsolete as most of the physical features were not represented on the plan, and it was difficult to function using the available map information”, he said.
Aromiwura noted that FAAN is constantly being challenged with the land use demand because they do not have current masterplans for the airports.
According to him, it was not that there was no master plans for the airports but that they are obsolete because master plans are developed for a period of time with provision for review in five years.
He said when review was not carved out they become obsolete, pointing out that this has become a major challenge to the FAAN, stressing that there had been attempts in the past to produce new plans but that those attempts had not be very successful.
The Manager noted that plans are not to be altered, but are to be reviewed, adding that a lot of alternations had been done to the current plans.
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Kenyan Runners Dominate Berlin Marathons
Kenya made it a clean sweep at the Berlin Marathon with Sabastian Sawe winning the men’s race and Rosemary Wanjiru triumphing in the women’s.
Sawe finished in two hours, two minutes and 16 seconds to make it three wins in his first three marathons.
The 30-year-old, who was victorious at this year’s London Marathon, set a sizzling pace as he left the field behind and ran much of the race surrounded only by his pacesetters.
Japan’s Akasaki Akira came second after a powerful latter half of the race, finishing almost four minutes behind Sawe, while Ethiopia’s Chimdessa Debele followed in third.
“I did my best and I am happy for this performance,” said Sawe.
“I am so happy for this year. I felt well but you cannot change the weather. Next year will be better.”
Sawe had Kelvin Kiptum’s 2023 world record of 2:00:35 in his sights when he reached halfway in 1:00:12, but faded towards the end.
In the women’s race, Wanjiru sped away from the lead pack after 25 kilometers before finishing in 2:21:05.
Ethiopia’s Dera Dida followed three seconds behind Wanjiru, with Azmera Gebru, also of Ethiopia, coming third in 2:21:29.
Wanjiru’s time was 12 minutes slower than compatriot Ruth Chepng’etich’s world record of 2:09:56, which she set in Chicago in 2024.
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