Security screeners began a one-day walkout on Thursday at 11 of Germany’s busiest airports, bringing departures to a virtual standstill, scuttling travel plans for an expected 200,000 people and adding to the chaos caused by public sector strikes. Airports serving Berlin, Hamburg, and Stuttgart canceled all of their departures in …
Read More »Private jets with VIPs onboard crash-lands in Ibadan airport
A private jet with 10 persons onboard, including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) crash-landed at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport on Friday morning, January 26. The jet with registration number, N580KR, landed safely but overshot into the nearby bush. Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria …
Read More »Black security guard searched only me – Nigerian journalist shares his 'humiliating' experience when he and white guys walked into VIP lounge at an African airport
Nigerian broadcast journalist, Deji Badmus has narrated his humiliating experience with black-on-black racism in an African country. “We have a long way to go in Africa. So some white-skinned guys and I were walking into a VIP lounge at an airport in an African country. Every white-skinned was allowed to …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger is detained at airport in Germany and interrogated after he failed to declare an Audemars Piguet watch in his bag
Hollywood actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was detained at an airport in Germany after police searched his luggage. The Hollywood star, 76, was held by customs officers in Munich after flying in from Los Angeles and failing to declare a luxury watch. He was pulled aside to have his luggage inspected …
Read More »Abuja airport road blocked, many stranded as truck crushes female journalist to death
A heavy duty truck loaded with sand crushed a radio presenter, Deborah Ohamara, inside a moving vehicle along ever-busy airport road Lugbe, Abuja. Details of the accident are still sketchy, however, it was gathered that the Ohamara, a staff of Naija Info FM, 95.1 Abuja, was driving from the …
Read More »Gunmen kidnap three travellers near Port Harcourt Airport
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of three persons along a road leading to Port Harcourt International Airport. The victims were abducted on the Obiri-Ikwerre Road stretch leading to the airport late on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Spokesperson of the command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who …
Read More »Cotonou Airport is better than Lagos airport. Beninese Officials don't beg for money- American Ifa devotee who frequents Nigeria says
A tourist, Nathan Lugo, has shared his experience at Cotonou Cadjehoun International Airport in the Benin Republic, comparing it with the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Nigeria. In a post shared on his Facebook page, Lugo, who is an American Ifa devotee noted that the Cotonou airport is better than …
Read More »NDLEA intercepts 'businessman' with large consignments of cocaine at Enugu airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Saturday 9th December 2023 intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, twelve (12) consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a Drug Trafficking Organisation. A man, Augustine Justine Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in copper wire …
Read More »FAAN threatens to sanction Nigerian Airport Workers who extort traveling Passengers
The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr Kabir Mohammed, has threatened to sanction the agency personnel, staff of government agencies and others who extort passengers. There have been several reports of airport workers using different ways to extort travellers, especially the international travellers but …
Read More »Munich Airport Resumes Operations After Major Snowfall
The airport in Munich resumed limited operations Sunday morning after being closed for nearly a day because of record snowfall that disrupted transportation across the region. About 17 inches of snow fell in parts of southern Germany on Saturday, an unusually large amount for early December, and what local news …
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