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 […]
The main objective of passenger’s facilitation is to make the traveller meet all conditions required to enable him or her travel with a particular flight and also to board on time, as scheduled by the airline. That process has become rigorous in every part of the world due to security threat. So it is not […]
Many Nigerians were largely apprehensive when on December 11, 2019, President Mohammadu Buhari announced in Egypt that the country will begin to issue visa on arrival for all African nationals. While the news was received with elation by Africans, many Nigerians were circumspect. Ironically, tourism business promoters have been campaigning and urging the federal government […]
Aviation security experts have warned that if the frequent security breaches at the airports continue it may lead to threat of lives and property, which would be injurious to the image of Nigeria and the air transport sector. Last week, a 25-year-old man was caught at the runway of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has assured travellers and airport users that new measures are already being put in place to enhance security at the nation’s airports after a man, now identified, illegally accessed the airside of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and wanted to board Azman Air flight designated to Port Harcourt […]
