The airports must do more to safeguard travellers’ belongings In 2019, the late President Muhammadu Buhari intervened when a young Nigerian student, Miss Zainab Aliyu, was implicated in a drug trafficking case in Saudi Arabia. Then a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano, Zainab was arrested after a banned drug, tramadol, was found in her […]
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 […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has recorded a total of 5,377.125kilogramms of drugs impounded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos in 2018, representing over 400percent increase. Compared to 2017, the agency impounded drugs worth 1,266.400kilogramms from the same airport; however, the number quadrupled in 2018 as a result of […]
