Despite the seemingly tight security at the nation’s airports, incidents of stowaways and other illegal infiltrations to supposedly secure areas of the airports are on the rise. The report last Wednesday of a dead body found in the wheel-well of Arik Air aircraft on arrival in Johannesburg at the South Africa Airways Technical maintenance at […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, have intercepted methamphetamine worth N14 billion as the Agency seeks stiffer punishment for methamphetamine production and trafficking. The seized drug weighing 45kgs was concealed inside foodstuff in a luggage meant for export to South Africa. The discovery was […]
Less than two weeks a Nigerian, 38-year-old Chijioke Obioha was executed in Singapore for smuggling 2.6kgs of dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis; officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos have prevented the execution of another thirty-eight year-old man, Augustine Uchenna from execution in […]
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja have commenced the interrogation of the Chief Security Supervisor of Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) and three others in connection with the unlawful exportation of 144kg of ephedrine to Maputo, Mozambique. The agency in a statement signed by […]
In order to break the drug cartels on the Brazil-Nigeria route and to check the increasing traffic between the two countries; Emirates has introduced compulsory card payment only for Nigeria passengers travelling to Brazil. The airline said it was embarrassed by the high record of drug couriers arrested on its flights and wanted to put […]