BREAKING: Tinubu orders suspension of FAAN cashless policy

President Bola Tinubu has ordered contiguous suspension of the arguable cashless argumentation introduced by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.

This is coming hardly 4 days aft its rollout triggered monolithic gridlock astatine large airports nationwide.

DAILY POST reports that the policy, launched connected March 1, mandated integer payments via ‘Go Cashless’ cards oregon POS systems for airdrome entree gates, parking and lounges.

It sparked terrible postulation jams astatine cardinal facilities specified arsenic Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, resulting successful agelong queues, stranded motorists and galore missed flights.

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo, announced the suspension of the argumentation portion briefing State House Correspondents connected the result of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, gathering presided implicit by President Tinubu.

According to the minister, Tinubu asked the aviation ministry and the enactment of FAAN to halt implementation, pending a review.

The President arsenic ordered them to “go backmost to the drafting board” an...