PH, Abuja, Lagos Airport Worst In 2015

The Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, has been named the worst international airport in the world for the year 2015.
A report published by CNNMoney and released by The Guide to Sleeping in Airports, also listed airports from Asia, Europe and the Middle East, among the worst.
The survey, which had qualifying responses from 26,297 well-travelled respondents, put Cape Town International Airport, South Africa, as the best airport on the continent.
It said Nigerian airport is riddled with unpleasant and unhelpful staff, alleged corruption, a severe lack of seating, broken air-conditioning and the fact that the arrivals hall is located inside a tent.
The website said the good news, however, is that “some areas of the terminal have been recently renovated, meaning you can expect actual walls, floors and windows. Though it is a far cry from reasonable, improvements being made.”
The publication listed the worst airports to include Port Harcourt International Airport (Nigeria), King Abdulaziz International Airport (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Tribhuvan International Airport (Kathmandu, Nepal), Tashkent International Airport (Uzbekistan), Simon Bolivar International Airport (Caracas, Venezuela), Toussaint Louverture International Airport (Port au Prince, Haiti), Hamid Karzai International Airport (Kabul, Afghanistan), Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Benazir Bhutto International Airport (Islamabad, Pakistan), and Beauvais-Tille International Airport (Paris).
The best airports are, Changi International Airport (Singapore), Incheon International Airport (Seoul, South Korea), Haneda International Airport (Tokyo, Japan), Taoyuan International Airport (Taipei, Taiwan), Hong Kong International Airport, Munich International Airport (Germany), Helsinki International Airport (Finland), Vancouver International Airport (Canada), Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia), and Kloten International Airport (Zurich, Switzerland).
It also listed the worst airports in Africa in 2015 to include, Port Harcourt International Airport (Nigeria), Khartoum International Airport (Sudan), Kinshasa N’djili International Airport (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Juba International Airport (South Sudan), Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport (Djibouti), Mombasa Moi International Airport (Kenya), Abuja Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (Nigeria), Luanda Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (Angola), Douala International Airport (Cameroon), Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport (Nigeria).
However, moved by the plight of air travellers in the state, the Rivers State Government, has begun talks with the Federal Government for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.
The Secretary to the State Government, Chief Kenneth Kobani, told newsmen in Port Harcourt, that the government is concerned over the delay in completion of the renovation works at the airport.
In his words: “Our hands are tied, and it is not true that we are not concerned or that we don’t feel the pain of people using the airport, but the problem is that the airport is not directly under us.”
It would be recalled that the airport was among other airports undergoing renovation and expansion under the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, but was later abandoned in the heat of the political campaigns.
But Kobani promised that the state government would work with the Federal Government to ensure that the airport rehabilitation work is completed as soon as possible, and pleaded with airport users to bear with the government.
He pledged to encourage investors in the state with reasonable tax concessions.
The Secretary to the State Government said the plan is to make the state a tax haven for investors, as he warned local government councils against threatening or impounding properties of companies in the course of their revenue drive.
Kobani said, “We have made it absolutely clear that nobody in any local government should use force or threat, or try to impound properties belonging to companies, they have no authority to do that, they have been warned.”