The total number of passengers who passed through Nigerian airports reached 17,230,438, the National Bireau of Statistics has said.
In its Air Transportation Data 2018 released in Abuja, the statistics bureau stated that the total number of international passengers who passed through Nigerian airports reached 4,438,799 in 2018 as against 4,056,717 passengers in 2017 representing a 9.42 per cent growth rate.
Similarly, the total number of domestic passengers who passed through Nigerian airports reached 12,791,639 in 2018 as against 10,383,452 passengers in 2017.
This represents 23.19 per cent growth rate.
Also, aircraft traffic reached 290,328.
The total number of international aircrafts recorded was 55,961 in 2018 as against 40,328 aircrafts in 2017 representing a 38.92 per cent growth rate.
