The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has concluded plans to introduce special visa on arrival, known as Business Trust Visas for foreigners who are coming into the country for the purpose of investment. Currently the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos Command of NIS said it issued 53,644 Visa on Arrival (VoA) to foreigners in 2022 and intends to double this […]
The Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced that it generated N1.95 billion in November. In a statement signed by Command’s spokesperson, Juliana Destiny Tomo, the Comptroller, Malami Gidado, said the command recorded a significant increase of N350.53 million over its collection for the month of October, […]
Last week the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, reiterated the intention of the Buhari’s administration to kick-off the aerotropolis programme, even at the twilight of its tenure, but stakeholders have frowned at the plan to demolish agency’s facilities to make way for the project in Lagos. Writing for Airport Council International (ACI), Sabrina Guerieri, […]
Last week, the Aviation Round Table (ART) held a breakfast meeting in Lagos and deliberated on the industry with the theme on airport security. In the communiqué the think-tank body released later, it stated among other things that multi-layered security system, which does not necessarily mean physical multi-layer structure but technologically driven security coverage, should […]
After the unveiling of the new international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMIA), Lagos in March 2022, it has remained underutilized, but Air Peace, pushed by nationalistic zeal moved to the facility shortly after it was opened to operate all its international and regional services. Other airlines for different reasons were reluctant to relocate […]
