Followings reports that illicit drugs can be planted in passengers’ checked-in luggage without their knowledge and consent, Writer looks at how such obnoxious acts can be prevented at the nation’s airports. Arrests made late last year by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) brought to the fore syndicated operations of drug traffickers who tag […]
There has been reports that airlines may have allowed drug syndicates to infiltrate their ranks or work with handling companies and this suspicious has gained traction since the killing of Nigerian drug suspect in Saudi Arabia. In a meeting recently, the Federal Government, through the Presidential Advisory Committee on Elimination of Drug Abuse PACEDA has […]
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has urged Air Peace crew to consider their role in exposing drug couriers as a commitment to save lives. Speaking during an eight-day training for Air Peace cabin crew members, which opened at the weekend in Lagos, the agency warned that those involved in drug peddling risked killing themselves […]
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a suspected drug trafficker in the bid to smuggle out 77 wraps of Cocaine, weighing one kilogram. Adam Abubakar Muhammed, aged 50 had ingested 77 wraps of Cocaine but was nabbed during the outward screening of passengers of Tarco Airline to Khartoum, Sudan.According to Ambrose Umoru, NDLEA […]
Following the implementation of the executive order on ease of doing business in Nigeria, extortion of money from passengers by security operatives at the MurtalaMuhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos has drastically reduced. The removal of tables where security operatives carry out physical searching of luggage has enhanced facilitation of screening as movement of passengers from […]
