Agreement ends 20-year dispute over Lagos’s MMA2 terminal
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on ThisDay
The Nigerian government and Bi-Courtney Aviation Services have reached a settlement ending nearly two decades of litigation over Lagos’s MMA2 terminal. The company is notably waiving a 132 billion naira ruling after the Federal Executive Council approved the agreement, ThisDay reports.
Nigeria’s Aviation Minister, Festus Keyamo, and lawyer and businessman Wale Babalakin signed a final agreement on 20 October 2026 ending the dispute over the MMA2 terminal at Lagos’s Murtala-Muhammed International Airport. The settlement was approved by the Federal Executive Council, according to Nigerian newspaper ThisDay.
Under the agreement, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services, Wale Babalakin’s company which operates the terminal, is waiving a 132 billion naira ruling for lost revenue as well as its claims over the former domestic terminal. It is also abandoning the exclusivity clause that restricted other domestic airport projects in Lagos and is immediately resuming payment of concession fees.
The government, for its part, is cancelling two decades of unpaid concession fees, restarting hotel and conference centre projects with a 24-month deadline, authorising the transfer of regional flights to MMA2 and allocating additional land to expand the aircraft parking area. Opened in May 2007 after being built entirely with private funding, MMA2 handles about 75% of Lagos’s domestic flights and can receive four million passengers a year.
