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Private jets with VIPs onboard crash-lands in Ibadan airport

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 …

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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

Black security guard searched only me - Nigerian journalist shares his

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 …

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is detained at airport in Germany and interrogated after he failed to declare an Audemars Piguet watch in his bag

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 …

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Cotonou Airport is better than Lagos airport. Beninese Officials don't beg for money- American Ifa devotee who frequents Nigeria says

Cotonou Airport is better than Lagos airport. Beninese Officials don

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 …

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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 …

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FAAN threatens to sanction Nigerian Airport Workers who extort traveling Passengers

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 …

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