Nigeria has so much to offer the world, from its culture to tourist destinations, but foreigners who may want to visit the country face hostility at Nigeria’s airports due to actions of security operatives. Over the years travellers leaving and coming to Nigeria narrate harrowing experience about the hostility, harassment and extortion that go on at the […]
Nigeria has recorded an improvement in the African visa openness index, as it is now number six in Africa, indicating that it is easier now to obtain visa from Nigeria. According to African Development Bank (ADB) and other reports, visa openness refers to the ease with which travellers can obtain authorisation to travel to and enter […]
Recently, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, hinted that the federal government has concluded plans to streamline the screening of passengers at the international airports and deploy security equipment to reduce human interface in order to end the allegation of the harassment of travellers by security operatives. It is also hoped that […]
For over a month and one week, there has been scarcity of passport booklets at all the passport offices of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) nationwide. This is as the federal government has approved the increase of the price of the document by September 1, 2024. THISDAY investigation revealed that the situation has created […]
Last Saturday a woman, Favour Igiebor, tore up her husband’s international passport on arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Lagos before security operatives and other travellers. She had returned from Europe alongside her husband and children and landed at the Lagos airport. Shocked and enraged security officers, including that of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) accosted her […]
