NDLEA

NDLEA Destroys Largest Seizure of 1.6 Million Kilogrammes Illicit Drugs Seized in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed heaps of illicit drugs weighing about 1.6 million kilogrammes of assorted illicit substances seized across Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states. This stands as the largest volume of seizures to be set ablaze in the annals of the anti-narcotics agency. A statement by the spokesman of the […]

Airports

Investigation: Cargo Terminal, MMIA Becoming Major Gateway for Drug Trafficking in W’Africa

It has emerged that the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos has become major hub and gateway for drug trafficking in West Africa. Despite the efforts to significantly curtail the movement of illicit drugs through the airport, the cargo terminal has increasingly continued to record high number of consignments. Inside sources revealed that […]

HANDLING

SAHCO Donates Medical Items to NDLEA at Airports

The Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) Plc has donated medical equipment to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). SAHCO said the donation was part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to its immediate environment. Executive Director, Cargo Services, SAHCO, Mrs. Boma Ukwunna, who represented the Managing […]

MMIA Aviation

Extortion Epidemic at Lagos Airport

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 […]

Aviation

Security Operatives Use Threat, Delay to Extort Money from Passengers at Lagos Airport

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 […]