LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Confusion reigned at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, when thousands of people returning home from Christmas could not quickly be attended to at Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, section. Fracas almost ensued when some security agents were helping some passengers to beat the long queue as other passengers began to protest…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRAGERS)-Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as a country that was needlessly ran down through cumulative effects of bad governance. He says it could only be salvaged through collective efforts. Obi spoke on Friday to airport correspondents at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. While answering questions,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested two Pakistani businessmen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a public address system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahole, Pakistan via Doha. According to NDLEA Director Media and…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Air Peace flight has made an emergency landing in Lagos due to a bird strike that got the bird stuck on the left main landing gear. The Air Peace flight P47154 which departed Lagos for Owerri, Enugu State at 12.00 noon on Saturday could not reach its destination, but had to…
LAGOS AUHUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have uncovered 442 parcels of Crystal Methamphetamine concealed in heads of fishes packed in cartons for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The drugs were to be exported through the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. A statement…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akwa Ibom State Government-owned airline, Ibom Air, had an emergency evacuation of passengers at the tarmac of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos. It was gathered that the aircraft with number IAN 4157 and 128 passengers, departed Abuja for Lagos at 10.30a.m. It landed at the international runway in Lagos on…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 38 Nigerians deported from the United Kingdom, in the early hours on Thursday, arrived in Lagos. According to authorities in Nigeria, the deportees, who are mainly mothers and grandmothers, arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja. They arrived in Lagos early this morning with one Home Office charter flight….
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Brazilian returnee, Igwedum Uche Benson has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos with pellets of cocaine concealed in his private part. NDLEA said Igwedum was nabbed at the Lagos airport on Monday 20th…
