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 airport, Ahmadu Garba, revealed the percentage increase in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 of […]
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 commendation during […]
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 […]