About five months ago, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria took firm decision to stamp out extortion and touting at the major airports in the country. Writer says that despite avowed determination to cleanse the airports of such ills, obnoxious acts still go on at the Lagos airport When the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria […]
The extortion of Nigerian travellers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos (MMIA) by security operatives has returned with full vigour after the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo reduced passengers’ interface with security officials at the introduction of ease of doing business policy at the airport. In 2018 the federal government introduced seamless […]
The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede has frowned at the attacks on its personnel by intending passengers blacklisted by the state from leaving the country. Bandede said Immigration is currently in conversation to see if people can be notified of their inability to travel before they their intending date for […]
The federal government has stopped issuance of international passports after shutting down the platform at the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in the midnight of May 17 to last till May 31, 2021. THISDAY learnt that the new regime, which would start on June 1, 2021, might entail increase in the cost of passport fees and […]
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 […]
