Visa on Arrival (VOA), Ease of Doing Business policies introduced by the federal government at the nation’s major airports last year have boosted foreign direct investment (FDI) by investors who were hitherto discouraged by the difficult visa process in the past. THISDAY gather from senior official of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport […]
Another batch of Nigerians, numbering about 155 yesterday arrived Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, from Libya after unsuccessful attempts to cross over to Europe. The returnees, who were largely in their 20s and 30s, were picked from different prisons and detention camps in the country. According to the Nigerian Immigration Services, their release was […]
The federal government yesterday launched harmonised departure and arrival cards at the Kaduna International Airport,as it begins the service of alternate airport to Abuja, which was shut down in the midnight of Wednesday. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Danbazau, accompanied by the Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, explained that the harmonised departure/arrival […]
Security operatives at the nation’s airports have imbibed the extortion of passengers as a culture and this has grave implications. An activist, Lanre David Lijadu recently wrote on his Facebook account what he went through on arrival and departure from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. He painted a sordid picture of how security operatives extort money from […]
Despite the seemingly tight security at the nation’s airports, incidents of stowaways and other illegal infiltrations to supposedly secure areas of the airports are on the rise. The report last Wednesday of a dead body found in the wheel-well of Arik Air aircraft on arrival in Johannesburg at the South Africa Airways Technical maintenance at […]
