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 contact, 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 passenger and his or her baggage to designated areas for physical checks.

“The designated areas will also have CCTV cameras. This is to ensure the passengers 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 terms 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/

Welcomed idea

I don't believe anything from these people

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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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Festus Keyamo is really working...
One of the best performing ministers of this administration.

A welcome development.

Lol, as you are screening.... NEPA takes light .... what happens

Lol bad market for touting staffs... Airport work wan hard well well now

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.

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

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

Ginkafa60:
I don't believe anything from these people

Believe it. I saw the video this morning. It's already in effect

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

dkidd:

Believe it. I saw the video this morning. It's already in effect

but me I no see you for airport this morning

Nive

Believe druggie at your own peril

Enemyofpeace:
but me I no see you for airport this morning

Lol... Na online I see am bro

Long over due abah.

Noted.
Nice move.

Dialpad:
Lol, as you are screening.... NEPA takes light .... what happens

Always thinking negative.....take your answer: you rescreen.

Please do same at Nnamdi Azikiwe too.

Will those Agberos parading themselves as customs allow that to happen?
Anytime I pass 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 passport, 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.

Ginkafa60:
I don't believe anything from these people

So we should fry akara for you abi

Its long be due kudos to keyamo.

More drugs coming in

Better

Kudosu fun Festus kayemo.

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.