Aviation

Stakeholders Seek Enhanced Security at Airport

Aviation industry stakeholders have reacted to new security alert that warned of looming security threat at the airports. They advised the federal government to evolve new security apparatus to protect air travellers and other airport users in the country. The alert was contained in a letter from the Ministry of Interior to the Nigeria Security […]

MMIA Aviation

As FAAN Signs Airport Management Deal with Arlington

There are indications that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has signed a deal with Arlington Securities Nigeria Services for the provision of Common Use Terminal Equipment and other passenger facilitation services. FAAN decided not to renew its contract with Societe International Telecommunication Aeronautiques (SITA), which had handled these services for the agency in […]

Aviation

Why Nigerian Passport is Scarce

The protests and petitions have been deafening over the failure of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to promptly issue passports to Nigerians who have applied and paid for them. At the Federal Capital Territory and in Lagos, there are many applicants who have waited for months for the passport, which they had applied and paid […]

Aviation

Immigration Hands over Unbalaced Deportee to father

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos Command on Saturday handed over a mentally unbalanced Nigerian deportee, Mr. Osagie Favour Aigbonghiamon, 22, to his father after three days in its care. Osagie was deported from Cyprus on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 aboard a Turkish Airline at the airport. Speaking […]