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 […]
The Senate Committee on Aviation today, March 6, 2021, paid an oversight visit to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria at the Authority’s Headquarters annex in Lagos. Receiving the distinguished committee, the Managing Director of the Authority, Capt. Rabiu Yadudu, who led the FAAN Management team to the meeting, expressed the Authority’s appreciation to the […]
The Nigeria Police, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos Command has arrested and paraded five suspected fake COVID-19 certificate racketeers at the airport, while two others escaped. Police said the suspects, Achibong Idonrenyin, Moses Samuel, Popoola Adewala, Wale Aderele and Abdulmalik Ibrahim major in selling fake COVID-19 certificates to unsuspecting travellers within the international wing […]
Major accident was averted Tuesday evening when Azman Air flight coming from Abuja landed and busted one of its tyres at the 18L runway of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. No casualty was recorded among the over 100 passengers on board the flight, as they were quickly evacuated. The aircraft could not move […]
Air fares have started coming down after the Yuletide celebration as passenger traffic has dropped at the airports. THISDAY checks revealed that there has been reduction in passenger traffic on many of the routes, but the Abuja-Lagos; Lagos-Abuja and Abuja-Owerri; Owerri-Lagos routes still record high traffic, even. However, the cost of economy class has come […]
