Travellers Miss Flights as FAAN’s Cashless Payment Starts at Lagos Airport Toll Gate, Paralyses Vehicular Traffic
Naija News • 9h ago
Chinedu Eze
Many travellers to domestic destinations from Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, missed their flights yesterday due to traffic gridlock caused by the introduction of a cashless system at the toll gate linking the international wing of the airport to the domestic wing.
There was delay in the payment process, as the toll gate officials refused cash payment and many of the travellers did not have the newly introduced access card, forcing the toll collectors to resort to payment through POS.
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) last year introduced cashless payment in its revenue points and gave the time line when it would migrate from cash payment to cashless payment at the Lagos airport, which started yesterday.
The traffic started building up from ...