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NewDigitalWorld: 7:47pm On Apr 07
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has concluded plans to deploy new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security machines at the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.

Director of Aviation Security Services, DASS, FAAN, Afegbai Igbafe, said as soon as the installation of the screening machines and monitors was concluded, customs tables would be removed.

He spoke to newsmen during an airport at the weekend, saying FAAN would upgrade the machines to include six different monitors, one for each of the six agencies at the airport, to enable officials to sit and monitor baggage directly from their screens.

He said, “The tables you see will be a thing of history; you will not see any table here. There will be no physical , because what we are also doing is that when we fix those monitors and the machines dictate unaccepted objects, the concerned officials will take the enger and his or her baggage to designated areas for physical checks.

“The designated areas will also have CCTV cameras. This is to ensure the engers are not being exploited. When the machines dictate something, the Aviation Security, AVSEC, calls the relevant agencies, such as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Customs, and quarantine, amongst others, to follow up.”


On AVSEC’s collaboration with the NDLEA in of drug investigation, he said: “Before we bought the new machines, our machines were not detecting some drugs, but with the new machines, we will start to train some of the security agencies, like the NDLEA, the DSS, the immigration and the quarantine.”

Meanwhile, Head of Department, ICT at MMIA, Chima Oge, said one of the new pieces of equipment, the Orion 927DX machine, would help in expediting the identification of organic materials.

Oge: “It has features that would help with the identification of organic materials accurately and quickly, either in range mode, which highlights the areas based on the range selected by the operator, and/or in interactive mode which provides the operator the option to display the areas based on the value of the pixel.”

However, an aviation security analyst, Group Captain John Ojikutu, retd, faulted the acquisition of the machines.

Ojikutu said, “Would this stop the foreign airlines from stopping their secondary hold-baggage screening? I very much doubt it. The machine can not work alone but is operated by someone. The machine may be TSA approved, but have the foreign airlines discarded secondary screening for their hold-luggage or checked-in luggage and are now relying on the FAAN baggage screening? After the Abdulmutalab exit through the MMA, the TSA bought and gave us a body-screening machine for free. What happened to it after a year is what we were asking ourselves and should be asking ourselves today.”

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/faan-moves-to-end-manual-checks-at-lagos-airport/

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Belcon(m): 8:03pm On Apr 07
Welcomed idea

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Ginkafa60(f): 8:03pm On Apr 07
I don't believe anything from these people

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BetterLife101(m): 8:03pm On Apr 07
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LordCenturion(m): 8:04pm On Apr 07
Great development, extortion and harassment will reduce.

In other news, people has been avoiding patience Jonathan and 16 workers she sent to prison since 2019, but if it's remi tinubu that did this, there will be wild outcry from nincomp**ps., it will be a wild debates every corners of nairaland and medias, Nigerians and hypocrites

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fman(m): 8:05pm On Apr 07
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Ernchibyke(m): 8:05pm On Apr 07
Festus Keyamo is really working...
One of the best performing ministers of this istration.

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Wryyy: 8:05pm On Apr 07
sylve11: 8:07pm On Apr 07
A welcome development. cool
Dialpad: 8:08pm On Apr 07
Lol, as you are screening.... NEPA takes light .... what happens
dkidd: 8:11pm On Apr 07
Lol bad market for touting staffs... Airport work wan hard well well now grin
dkidd: 8:13pm On Apr 07
Dialpad:
Lol, as you are screening.... NEPA takes light .... what happens
Light no dey disturb airport na... Na automatic. Once light go the backup picks up.

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Abaziaka: 8:13pm On Apr 07
As long as it brings sanity to the aviation industry it ok
Cuz consistent scrutinization from the security personnel can be very frustrating at times

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simpleseyi: 8:14pm On Apr 07
Only in JAGABAN’s regime. What past useless rulers couldn’t do over the decades, JAGABAN started doing them in his first 30 minutes in office

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dkidd: 8:15pm On Apr 07
Ginkafa60:
I don't believe anything from these people
Believe it. I saw the video this morning. It's already in effect

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dkidd: 8:16pm On Apr 07
Abaziaka:
As long as it brings sanity to the aviation industry it ok
Cuz consistent scrutinization from the security personnel can be very frustrating at times
And begging aka touting

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Enemyofpeace: 8:19pm On Apr 07
dkidd:

Believe it. I saw the video this morning. It's already in effect
but me I no see you for airport this morning
SultanOfPuna: 8:20pm On Apr 07
Nive
Burruchaga71(m): 8:21pm On Apr 07
Believe druggie at your own peril
dkidd: 8:22pm On Apr 07
Enemyofpeace:
but me I no see you for airport this morning
Lol... Na online I see am bro

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Awise09(m): 8:24pm On Apr 07
Long over due abah.
bigdammyj: 8:24pm On Apr 07
Noted.
Nice move.
Vision101(m): 8:24pm On Apr 07
Dialpad:
Lol, as you are screening.... NEPA takes light .... what happens
Always thinking negative.....take your answer: you rescreen.

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99thEnemy(m): 8:26pm On Apr 07
Please do same at Nnamdi Azikiwe too.
7demons: 8:26pm On Apr 07
Will those Agberos parading themselves as customs allow that to happen?
Anytime I through that Airport, they will check at the entrance more than 4 times from different officials. Each demanding for tips.
-Nigerians working with Airlines management will demand.
Enter Immigration, they will search and demand.
EFCC corner, they will search your port, input your details to know if you're banned from traveling. After they will ask for tips. You settle them then
Move towards NDLEA, the same thing. Search and demand money.
Even at the boarding gate, you will see officials asking for money. Tụfịakwa for that country.

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temitope27(m): 8:27pm On Apr 07
Ginkafa60:
I don't believe anything from these people
So we should fry akara for you abi

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Awise09(m): 8:28pm On Apr 07
Its long be due kudos to keyamo.

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Observer210: 8:29pm On Apr 07
More drugs coming in
nairalee(m): 8:29pm On Apr 07
Better
Akharmony: 8:30pm On Apr 07
Kudosu fun Festus kayemo.

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7demons: 8:34pm On Apr 07
All these Monitoring Camera, this & that na trash!!
Illegitimate deals will still be going on behind bars.
As a frequent traveler, I ve had experiences about shady deals with these officials behind close doors.
Just say you don't know.
Forget all those people that appear on NDLEA mug shots. Dem no settle well.

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