Nigeria: Abuja Airport - Consortium Sues Aviation Minister Over Contract Breach

3 October 2012

The proposed infrastructural development of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by some foreign investors may have run into a hitch as the Abuja Gateway Consortium has filed a suit in the Federal High Court, Abuja division, praying it to declare that it has a valid and subsisting contract with the Federal Government of Nigeria on the airport.

Plaintiffs in the suit are Mr. Miebaka Kenneth Adoki, appointed by power of attorney to represent Abuja Gateway Consortium, and Nairanet Technologies Limited, while the attorney-general of the federation, Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), International Finance Corporation, minister of aviation, minister of finance, Mrs. Stella Oduah and minister of the Federal Capital Territory were listed as defendants.

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