Nigeria, Oct. 14 -- The Ebonyi State Government has acknowledged that staff at the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport hold prayers before work but denied that the facility has been converted into a worship centre.

The state Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Ikeuwa Omebeh, initially dismissed a viral video showing a church service at the airport as AI-generated. He later acknowledged that staff had prayed there, insisting that a prayer service was different from a church service.

"It is not true, in all ramifications," Mr Omebeh said.

"It has never been a worship centre, and we don't intend to use it as a worship centre."

He spoke in an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday, responding to criticism of Governor Fr...