Fire guts Kaduna Airport control tower

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent

Fire has engulfed the control tower of the Kaduna Airport, severely damaging it.

Witnesses said fire started briefly after 3pm Easter Sunday and was not put out until the control tower was razed down.

“As I am talking to you now, fired has razed down the control tower,” a witness at the scene said.

Yakubu Dati, spokesperson of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, was not available for comments.

The cause of the fire was not known.