Happening Now : Protests rock Airport, air travellers stranded as workers block all entrances
Hundreds of Nigerians, including high-ranking government officials and their armed bodyguards, business guests, and tourists, have been denied entry to Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
At 9:15 a.m., when The Nation’s correspondent arrived in the area around the airport, dozens of cars carrying trapped passengers still had nowhere to go in the roughly four km trek to the terminal.
A police escort in a Hilux pickup vehicle that was unable to press ahead towards the gate said, “NLC people are protesting, they have blocked the entrance, and there is no way to move forward at all.”
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