Nigeria will shut its main international airport in the oil producing Niger Delta at Port Harcourt for at least four months' repairs later on Friday, the aviation agency said. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority said the emergency shutdown was required to rehabilitate the runway and build a fence around the facility.
"The airport is being closed down for safety reasons ... We hope that the rehabilitation work will be completed and the airport reopened in December," a spokesman said.
"They have been directed to close it down at sunset today." One of the crashes on December 10 was at the Port Harcourt airport where 106 passengers, many of them school children, were killed. Some commentators said that lives could have been saved if the fire trucks at the airport had had access to water.
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