IMMIGRATION

Travellers’ Guide to Avoiding Visa Scams

Omolabake Fasogbon When Mrs. Benita Ogar handed over a sum of N6 million to a travel agent introduced by her children’s school proprietress, little did she know she was unknowingly parting with her life savings. Ogar, based in Kaduna, had believed she was finally securing her family’s long-awaited relocation to Canada.  She submitted her international passport, […]

Aviation

AMCON Exonerates Arik Air Receivership Manager, Alleges Airline Founder Owes Agency N240bn

Shareholders: Airline Valued $3.7bn in 2014, Request for Statement of Company’s Affairs Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has exonerated the Arik Air Receiver Manager, Kamilu Omokide Alaba and insists that the founder of the airline, Sir Arumemi Johnson owed AMCON N240 billion and described him as a bully borrower. This was contained in a […]

Comptroller-General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede Aviation

AVSEC Arrest Immigration Officers at MMIA over Human Trafficking

Two officials of the Nigerian Immigration Service attached to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos have been arrested by members of the Aviation Security (AVSEC) of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for allegedly aiding human trafficking. THISDAY gathered from an insider that the officers had attempted to traffic six underage girls to […]

NAMA Fraud: Court Orders Forfeiture of N3.5b Belonging to Ex-MD, Others

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of N3.5 billion and $67,586.27 in the accounts of the former managing director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam and other accused staff of the agency. The others are former general manager, procurement, Mr. Olumuyiwa Adegorite; former general manager, finance, […]

Chairman of NAHCO, Suleiman Yahyah Resigns

Chairman of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company PLC (nahco aviance), Suleiman Yahyah has resigned. In his resignation letter to the management of the company, Yahyah cited the urgent need to attend to his failing health. According to statement issues by the company on Saturday, with the resignation of Yahyah, the Vice Chairman, Mr. Denis Hasdenteufel, […]