Abuja 21 Dec (ANA) - Nigeria will close the airport in the capital, Abuja, for six weeks from February to repair its badly damaged runway, Reuters news agency quotes the the government as saying. Flights to Abuja will be diverted to Kaduna, a small airport for domestic flights where airlines use handwritten boarding passes, it reports. Kaduna lies about 160km (100 miles) to the north of the capital and a train service recently opened between the two cities. (ANA)

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