The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have announced firm collaboration aimed at halting transnational financial fraud emanating from Nigeria and to meet the compliance standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Their joint, efforts they said, seek to ensure Nigeria exit FATF grey list status through the […]
Without recurrent training, continuous engagement of manpower and deployment of state-of-the-art equipment, airport security can easily be compromised. There are two critical areas of air transport that seem interwoven. These are security and safety. Aviation safety is described as a step towards the prevention of accidents and incidents in the aviation industry. Safety is mostly […]
Air Peace Chairman, Dr. Allen Onyema has called for the concerted efforts to improve security at airports, as records show increasing security threats on air travel worldwide. Onyema, made the call during a high-level symposium with the theme: ‘Fundamentality of Aviation Security in Achieving the Safe-Skies Goal’, which held in Lagos. He described the symposium’s theme as both timely and […]
Stakeholders in the aviation industry have called for review of policies guiding the operations of security agencies at the airports, insisting on collaboration and intelligence sharing by security operatives at the nation’s airports, in order to overcome the growing security challenges in air travel. Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the State Security Service […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has upgraded security infrastructure at Nigeria’s airports, especially international airports in line with Standard and Recommended Practices (SARPS), which are technical specifications adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). To this end, the agency has replaced most of the security equipment with modern, state-of-the-art alternatives at the […]
