The NDLEA has found 1.7 million opioid pills in noodles and other items at the Lagos airport. Eko Hot Blog reports that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted at least 1,760,460 pills of tramadol and other opioids hidden in noodles packs and other items at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos … Read more
FG has evacuated hundreds of Nigerians from Niger Republic and India after their horror experience abroad. Eko Hot Blog reports that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has evacuated 266 stranded Nigerians from the Niger Republic. EDITOR’S PICKS Family Announces Burial Arrangements For Demola Seriki Sanwo-Olu Commissions LASWA Data Centre To Enhance Safety On Lagos … Read more
Nigeria Immigration has fired 8 personnel and removed 100 others from the Lagos airport. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has punished 26 personnel for engaging in corrupt practices. EDITOR’S PICKS Half Salaries: UNIJOS ASUU Asks Members To Stay At Home Indefinitely Resist Unofficial Meetings With Politicians, INEC Warns New RECs … Read more
Passengers were stranded after aviation workers shut down the Lagos airport terminal. Eko Hot Blog reports that passengers were left stranded after early morning flights were suspended at the Lagos airport on Tuesday. EDITOR’S PICKS Kano APC Meeting Turns Bloody As Reps’ Majority Leader ‘Attacks’ Deputy Gov’ship Candidate Nigerian Music Star, Davido Loses Son, Ifeanyi … Read more
Nigerians arriving Dubai are stranded as their passports have been seized and many are detained by immigration officers. EKO HOT BLOG reports that Some Nigerian arriving in Dubai are reportedly being detained after their passports were seized by immigration officials. EDITOR’S PICK: Abike Dabiri: Why Visa To Dubai Impossible To Access By Male Nigerians Below 30 JUST IN: … Read more
Woman with drugs in fetish bowls intercepted at Lagos airport …Ernest Ojieh, was arrested in connection with the seizure on Saturday. EDITOR’S PICK: BREAKING: INEC Declares PDP’s Adeleke Osun Gov-Elect BREAKING: Yemi Osinbajo Undergoes Leg Surgery Governor Sanwo-Olu Charges Officials Over Poaching Of State Athletes EKO HOT BLOG reports that the NDLEA operatives have detained … Read more
During the temporary shutdown of the runway, international flights were prevented from landing and taking off from the airport’s international terminal Airport officials said the corpse was suddenly found on Runway 18R during a routine runway inspection by FAAN personnel EDITOR’S PICK Accountant General Suspended Over Alleged ₦80bn Fraud EFCC Arrests Former NDDC MD Ekere … Read more
Passengers rescued as fire destroys aircraft tyres in Port Harcourt airport The Nigerian civil airspace has maintained a relatively safe record in about a decade now which has increased passengers’ confidence in air travel EDITOR’S PICK 2023: PDP Picks Abuja For Convention, NEC Decides Zoning Wednesday [JUST IN] 2023: Sanwo-Olu Presents His Gov Nomination Forms … Read more
Australian judge deplores Djokovic’s treatment at Melbourne airport EKO HOT BLOG reports that Novak Djokovic’s legal challenge to the Australian government’s revocation of his visa was dismissed by a judge who criticized the Serbian’s treatment by border officials upon arrival. Djokovic appeared to have received the required medical exemption before traveling to Australia, according to … Read more
The discharged round went into the property of the person who brought the weapon… EKO HOT BLOG reports that an accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic on Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend. The incident … Read more
Australian women to sue Qatar over invasive airport strip-searches Qatar eventually apologized for the incident, and one airport employee was sentenced to a suspended jail term EKO HOT BLOG reports that a group of Australian ladies have sued Qatari authorities after being strip-searched and inspected at Doha airport. After a baby was discovered in a … Read more
NDLEA arrests man with over 2 billion naira worth of cocaine in street value at Abuja Airport. A Nigerian, Okey Eze, who claims to be a tiler by profession has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 350 wraps of cocaine worth … Read more
Residents were thrown into panic on Monday as an explosion rocked Adamawa State. EKOHOTBLOG reports that an explosion was recorded in Adamawa State as a fuel tanker exploded in the early hours of Monday. It was gathered that the explosion occurred at the busy PZ Roundabout along Airport Road, Yola the Adamawa State capital. It … Read more
The management of the llorin International Airport says it has put in place measures to nip any security threat in the bud. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had on April 9 issued an alert of security threat of attacks on some airports in the country. The circular addressed to Airport Chiefs of Security … Read more
Also, booking and check-in counters of many airlines were crowded with travelers rushing to board their flights. The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Friday witnessed increased traffic due to huge number of passengers travelling to different parts of the country to celebrate Easter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that flights from Abuja … Read more
House of Representatives on Wednesday called on the federal government to reopen the international wings of Kano, Enugu and Port Harcourt airport shutdown down at the peak of the lockdown occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. The House also urged the Presidential Taskforce on COVID–19 to urgently direct the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to … Read more
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Ukaegbu Bright Onyekachi, an alleged cocaine trafficker, at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. YOU CAN ALSO LIKE: Sanwo-Olu Congratulates Oyinlola At 70 INEC Plans To Meet Stakeholders On Polling Units Expansion A Day After Sunday Igboho’s Visit, Fulani Settlement Set Ablaze In Ogun Few … Read more
Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which is entrusted to manage all Commercial Airports in Nigeria, has shared pictures of the works that have been done at the new Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) terminal, Lagos. The terminal was one of the four facilities to be built under the Nigeria-Chinese $500 million loan deal signed … Read more
September 14, 2020. The Federal Government has said all airports in the country including private airports and airstrips will now opened for domestic commercial flights. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this known on Monday during a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. Ekohotblog had earlier reported that FG reopened … Read more
By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba You have probably seen on social media the “Onye ije” airline video mocking the Anambra airport venture as a mirage embarked upon by the Willie Obiano administration. Sometimes too about mid-2019, the same year I first saw the video, a newspaper columnist, giving vent to the propaganda of the opposition in the … Read more