Tag: Lagos airport

ADC, LP condemn FG’s ₦712bn Lagos Airport renovation as ‘misplaced, elitist and reckless’

Aminu Imam
ADC, LP condemn

Fierce criticism has trailed the Federal Government’s approval of ₦712.3 billion for the renovation of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with opposition parties – the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Labour Party (LP) – describing the move as fiscally reckless, elitist, and out of touch with the economic realities facing Nigerians. The criticism follows the July 31 approval granted by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), announced by Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo. According to him, the funds will go toward the first major rehabilitation of the airport’s old terminal since its…

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‘Lagos Int’l Airport Terminal-1 set for ₦712bn renovation over 22 months’ – Keyamo 

Aminu Imam
Keyamo on MMIA

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Thursday approved ₦712 billion for the full rehabilitation, upgrade, and modernisation of International Terminal-1 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The approval was the centrepiece of a sweeping ₦900 billion aviation infrastructure plan for the country. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, made the disclosure yesterday while addressing newsmen after the FEC meeting presided by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at State House, Abuja. Keyamo said the project, awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), will strip the old terminal down…

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NDLEA intercepts largest heroin consignment at Lagos airport

Aminu Imam

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has intercepted what it described as the single largest heroin consignment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. The agency also arrested members of an organised criminal organisation that specialises in trafficking heroin across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America in an operation leading to the seizure of the consignment which weighed 51.90Kg on February 12, 2024. NDLEA Chairman, Buba Marwa, who disclosed this while briefing journalists yesterday in Lagos, said the operation was the single largest seizure of heroin…

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Over 5million Tramadol pills worth N3.7bn captured at Lagos airport

Aminu Imam

Some criminals’ attempt to smuggle 98 cartons containing 5, 122, 900 pills of Tramadol 225mg, with an estimated street value of about N3.7billion into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, was thwarted through the robust synergy between men of the Nigeria Customs Service and NDLEA officers at the airport as well as those at the DHL cargo warehouse. The Director of Media and Advocacy for NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed all the seizures and arrest yesterday, said preliminary findings revealed that the consignments were imported from India…

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Air transport workers call off strike

Aminu Imam

Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) yesterday ended the industrial action against Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) over the sacking of 34 members of the union without due process. According to the deputy general secretary of the union, Frances Akinjole, yesterday, “The strike that was embarked upon on 1st November against the Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited has been called-off pursuant to the acceptance by the company to recall the laid-off members of our union and an undertaking to pay their salaries”. The face-off affected passengers as several…

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NDLEA intercepts N1.1bn Travellers’ Cheques, 10.89kg cocaine at Lagos airport

Aminu Imam

Travellers’ cheques in different foreign currencies with a total value of N1.157 billion have been intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA). At least, a suspect, Oguma Richard Uchenna has been arrested in connection to the attempt to export the cheques, which were neatly concealed inside four bound hardcover books disguised as academic project literature, to the United Kingdom. The financial instruments suspected to be counterfeits were discovered on Wednesday, 27th April, at the NAHCO export shed…

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‘Lagos airport epicentre of drug trafficking in Nigeria’ – NDLEA Boss, Marwa

Aminu Imam

The chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, has described the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos as the epicentre of drug trafficking in Nigeria. Marwa, while speaking yesterday, said this is based on the volume of drugs seized at the Lagos international airport since the beginning of the year. Marwa, who was a guest at the Presidential Villa in Abuja today for the weekly briefings coordinated by Nigeria’s Presidential Media Team, stated that “Murtala Mohammed International Airport remains the epicentre of the spectacular seizures, including…

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Nigeria’s imported Covid-19 cases jump 478% in a week – Official

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…As daily count hits 4-week high Amid fears of a third wave, Nigeria’s Covid-19 cases from inbound international travellers jumped 478% from July 5th to 11th, almost five times the count a week before. The latest update of the National Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), situation report released on Friday shows positive cases among inbound travellers stood at 14 the week before July 5, but rose to 81 as of July 11. Cases during the week in view also moved from 693 to 392, with Lagos, Rivers and Enugu, accounting…

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NDLEA arrests drug kingpin with N8bn cocaine at Lagos airport

Aminu Imam

…Seizes $24,500 offered as bribe A Brazil-based drug kingpin has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), who also intercepted 36 blocks of cocaine, weighing 27.95 kilogrammes with a street value of over N8billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. The suspect, Ejiofor Felix Enwereaku, was arrested at the airport on Friday “for importing 27.95kg of cocaine worth N8 billion street value, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson said in an issued statement yesterday. He said the suspect used organised criminal gang, which specialises…

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2 drug traffickers excrete 191 wraps of cocaine, heroin at Lagos airport

Aminu Imam

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has arrested two drug traffickers at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, after the suspects excreted 191 wraps of cocaine and heroin. This was made known In a statement issued yesterday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi. According to Babafemi, one Chukwudi Destiny was apprehended on Saturday, during the outward screening of passengers on Ethiopian airline to Italy, adding that the NDLEA operatives referred him for scanning and the scan result proved positive for drug ingestion. Consequently, he was…

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