News

NDLEA records 8.6% increase in arrests at MMIA in 2019 — Garba

Ihesiulo Grace 24 January 2020 0

The Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that the percentage of illicit drug offenders it caught in 2019 increased by 8.6 per cent when compared to 2018. Special Area Commandant, Commander of Narcotics at the

Interviews

Our strategies at fighting drug barons, others at MMIA- Ahmadu

Ihesiulo Grace 23 October 2017 0

Garba Ahmadu is the Commander of Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). In this interview with CHUKWUEMEKE IWELUNMO, the NDLEA Commander speaks on the activities of the narcotics agent at the airport. Excerpts: Please can you review the activities of NDLEA in the last six months? In the […]

Crime News

I smuggled heroin into Nigeria to save my son – Teacher

Ihesiulo Grace 18 March 2017 0

A 43-year-old computer instructor, Anukaenyi Bob-Manuel Ogochukwu, has said he smuggled heroin from Nairobi, Kenya, to save his four year old son who is sick. He said this when he was nabbed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for importing illicit drugs into […]

Metro News Nigeria

Drug smugglers abandoned 6.155kg heroin at Lagos airport

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2017 0

Drug smugglers have abandoned 6.155 kg of heroin at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. The banned drug which originated from Pakistan was left unclaimed on the conveyor belt at the arrival hall during the inward screening of passengers on Etihad Airways flight, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said. NDLEA commander at […]

News Nigeria

Aviation Security Arrests Man For Forging Employment Letter

Ihesiulo Grace 19 March 2015 0

Aviation security personnel attached to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos have arrested a man for forging a letter of employment to unsuspecting applicants seeking jobs at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The unidentified man was arrested Thursday and handed over to the airport police command for prosecution. The general manager, corporate communications

Aviation

NAHCO Hails Customs over Provision of Enabling Environment

Ihesiulo Grace 18 March 2015 0

Chairman of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, (NAHCo Aviance), Mallam Suleiman Yahyah, has commended the Customs Area Commander (CAC) at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos Command, Mr. Folorunso Adegoke, for the command’s efforts at providing the enabling environment for increase in cargo revenues. Yahyah, who gave the

News

NOA Awards Airport Cleaner For Returning N12m

Ihesiulo Grace 12 March 2015 0

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has awarded Josephine Ugwu, a female contract staffer of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, with the NOA Citizens’ Responsibility Award in recognition of her outstanding show of honesty. It will be recalled hat om January 10 2015, Ugwu was reported to have returned […]