The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Dr. Ibrahim Kana, will be declaring open, the 2025 Aviation Business Summit and Expo (ABSE) on behalf of the minister, Mr Festus Keyamo, SAN.

KANA will be leading State Commissioners of Transport, Heads of aviation agencies and other dignitaries at the summit.

The summit is scheduled to hold from July 15-17 at the NIGAV Expo Event Centre at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

ABSE, which is the only fully dedicated airport business convergence, is designed to address air transport concerns from an airport perspective, provide an opportunity for in-depth discussions on how to make Nigeria’s airports economically sustainable and guarantee ROI for private funding in what has been a predominantly government-dominated sector.

The ABSE Chairman, Mr Fortune Idu, said the ministry of Aviation, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, the Nigerian Transport Commissioners’ Forum, and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority are collaborating with the Airport Business Summit group to ensure the success of ABSE 2025.

The theme for this year’s summit is “Investment Opportunities in Airport Public-Private Partnerships.”

The summit aims to highlight ways to harness investment and development opportunities for airport development, viability, and intermodal corridors in the air transport sector.

The three-day programme, Idu said is packed-full, starting with a training workshop on airport development by exceptional instructors, to the Special Airport State Session and the airport manager forum, which collectively create an unparalleled summit on air transport sector development essential for transforming Nigeria’s economy.

The programmes lined up for the event include masterclasses, workshops and panels session providing insights into revenue generation, airport security agencies collaboration among others.