Chairman and CEO of the business aviation terminal, Quits Aviation Services Limited, Sam Iwuajoku has reacted to the insistence of the Nigeria Customs Services that private jets operating in Nigeria must pay Customs duties and explained that aircraft registered outside Nigeria cannot pay customs duty. Iwuajoku who spoke exclusively to THISDAY expressed surprise at the […]
The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Plc has risen to expose and denounce the efforts to damage its reputation by ex-officials of the organisation. The company recently replied the erstwhile managing director of its subsidiary, NAHCO Free Trade Zone (FTZ), Mr. Baba Yusuf, who accused the company of using its facility to conceal illegal weapons […]
Nigeria loses over $30 million in export produce annually due to poor quality control and poor packaging and has lost the position of a major hub for cargo freighting in Africa. This was disclosed by the President of the Association of Foreign Airlines Representatives in Nigeria (AFARN), Kingsley Nwokoma who said that many farm produce […]
Following the implementation of the executive order on ease of doing business in Nigeria, extortion of money from passengers by security operatives at the MurtalaMuhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos has drastically reduced. The removal of tables where security operatives carry out physical searching of luggage has enhanced facilitation of screening as movement of passengers from […]
Nigerian Customs personnel at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos have been accused of conniving with cargo agents to deprive the federal government revenues that accrue from imported commodities. Reports indicate that almost half of the goods imported are not declared by cargo agents because they allegedly collude with Customs personnel, so government […]
