Sniffers dogs, anti-terrorism squads to secure airports

Mr Yakubu Dati, the General Manager, Corporate Communications of FAAN, who spoke with reporters  in Lagos on Thursday, said the airports are Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt.

``This measure, which will be extended to the other airports in the country later, is in line with the transformation agenda of the Federal Government in the aviation industry.

``This is designed to provide world-class facilities and service at all Nigerian airports.

``A comprehensive audit of security and surveillance has been conducted on aircraft, terminals and security personnel to align them to standards in the industry,’’ he said.

Dati said that the airport security personnel have been trained in crowd control, body search and other specialised areas, saying that undercover surveillance had been conducted by plain cloth crack team.

``At present, all Nigerian airports have a full complement of modern security equipment, hand-held metal detectors, CCTV cameras, x-ray screening machines to the 3-D scanning machines.

``This is in addition to 24-hour security patrol on the air side by the aviation security personnel and the presence of Police Bomb Disposal Units in the terminals.’’

He reassured airport users, particularly passengers that Nigerian airports were now safe and secured