Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has announced the lifting of flight ban for life placed on Ms Comfort Emmanson and pledged to work with relevant aviation agencies to eliminate unruly behaviour of passengers in air travel in Nigeria. Ms Emmanson exhibited unruly behaviour in Ibom Air Flight QI 513 from Uyo to Lagos on August […]
Without recurrent training, continuous engagement of manpower and deployment of state-of-the-art equipment, airport security can easily be compromised. There are two critical areas of air transport that seem interwoven. These are security and safety. Aviation safety is described as a step towards the prevention of accidents and incidents in the aviation industry. Safety is mostly […]
Stakeholders in the aviation industry have called for review of policies guiding the operations of security agencies at the airports, insisting on collaboration and intelligence sharing by security operatives at the nation’s airports, in order to overcome the growing security challenges in air travel. Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the State Security Service […]
Over the years there has been growing animosity between the Nigerian Customs Service and the Aviation Security of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on issues concerning security and the management of facilities at the Lagos airport. The writer posits that security could be compromised if customs and other security operatives do not delineate their […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has thrown more light on a deceased body of a pregnant woman reported to have been raped to death at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, saying that the woman did not die inside the facility; rather, the body was dumped near the runway of the airport. […]
