FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Keyamo Orders Dismantling of Joint Luggage Inspection Table, Launches New Reforms at MMIA, GAT

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has directed the dismantling of joint inspection tables managed by multiple security agencies, which they use for physical inspection of passengers’ luggage. The Minister said, henceforth, inspections will focus on intelligence-based screening, use of advanced scanning technology equipment, and non-physical passenger profiling to enhance efficiency and accuracy, insisting that these new reforms must […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

As Immigration Sets Up Panel for Woman Who Tore Husband’s Passport

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 […]

TRAVEL

NIS: Over 3.6m Nigerians Migrated in Two Years to Other Countries in Search of Better Opportunities

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has disclosed that over 3.6 million Nigerians migrated to other countries within a space of two years. The Controller, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command, Mrs. Adeola Adesola Adesokan, disclosed this in a speech during the facility tour of the remodeled ‘E Wing Arrival’ at the airport. She said data from […]

Airlines

AIR PEACE REINFORCES INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP WITH TRANSIT FLIGHTS VIA LAGOS AIRPORT

Nigeria’s leading airline, Air Peace, has commenced transit flights through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos to various regional and international cities, a press statement issued by the airline on Friday, November 11, has revealed. The statement said: “Finally, Air Peace and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, have created the first Transit Hub […]

Aviation

‘MMA2 Remains a Beacon of Resilience, Preferred Choice for Airlines’

Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), the operator of Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2) has said that its facility remains a shining example of infrastructure advancement driven by the involvement of private investors. BASL made this known in a statement released by the Head, of Corporate Communications Department of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, Ajoke Yinka-Olawuyi […]