A VIRAL post on social media circulated by a verified X user, @lagosyouknow, claims that the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, stated that the entire Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos has only one door.
The post quotes the Minister as saying: “There is no international airport in the world that you step into that has only one door. But at MMIA there is only one door. What if there’s a stampede? How can you have just one entrance in a big international airport? If you go to all international airports you will see more than seven entrances.”
The post includes a screenshot of Minister Keyamo during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
As of June 17, 2026, the post had garnered over 25,000 views, and over 100 likes, sparking widespread debate and criticism from users questioning the architectural infrastructure of Nigeria’s premier international airport.
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CLAIM
Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo claimed that the entire Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) has only one door.
FINDINGS
Findings by The FactCheckHub show that the claim is MISLEADING. Festus Keyamo did not say the entire Murtala Muhammed International Airport has only one door. He was specifically referring to the passenger entrance design at the airport’s newer Terminal 2 building.
A review of the full Channels Television interview published on August 3 shows that Keyamo was discussing operational and design challenges at Terminal 2, not the entire airport complex.
While criticising the terminal’s layout, he said passengers arriving at the departure section have only one main entrance door, which he argued could create safety concerns during emergencies.
In the same interview, however, Keyamo expressly stated that the older Terminal 1 has multiple entrances, contradicting the impression created by the viral post that the entire airport has only one door.
His full statement reads: “If you walk into Terminal 2 now, which is even the new one, we are still touching it, spending so much money on it. If you walk into the new terminal now, you have to take your bags up to departure, so when you arrive, it’s not going straight to departure, and that’s a design error all over the world. There’s no airport you are coming into in the whole world where you have one door, but there’s only one door. What if there’s a stampede? How can you have one entrance with a big international airport? If you go to all international airports, you see more than seven entrances, even the old one(terminal 1), as you’re being dropped off, you see different doors, different entrances. Even Terminal one has different doors.”
The FactCheckHub found that the phrase “But at MMIA there is only one door” circulating online is not an exact quote from the interview. Rather, it is an interpretation that strips Keyamo’s comments of their original context and makes them appear as though he was referring to the entire airport.
The FactCheckHub confirmed that there is indeed only one main public drop-off entrance door designated for passengers entering the Terminal 2 building. However, the facility is equipped with multiple separate exit doors, as well as dedicated emergency exit doors throughout the terminal to facilitate evacuations in compliance with aviation safety protocols.
VERDICT
The claim that Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo said MMIA has only one door is MISLEADING. The minister’s comments were selectively extracted from his analysis of the architectural flaws of Terminal 2, and not the entire airport. In the same interview, he acknowledged that the older Terminal 1 possesses multiple operational entrance doors.
Seasoned writer and literary curator, Zainab Abdulrasaq is a factchecker for The FactCheckHub in an effort to combat information disorder. She can be reached on IG @blackbookishgirl or zabdulrasaq@icirnigeria.org
