{"id":17833,"date":"2024-06-28T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=17833"},"modified":"2024-06-28T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:46:36","slug":"aviation-minister-addresses-concerns-of-begging-and-extortion-at-nigerian-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2024\/06\/28\/aviation-minister-addresses-concerns-of-begging-and-extortion-at-nigerian-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation Minister Addresses Concerns of Begging and Extortion at Nigerian Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Festus Keyamo, Nigeria&#8217;s Aviation Minister, has acknowledged numerous complaints regarding begging and extortion at the country&#8217;s international airports. Keyamo stated, &#8220;I have received several complaints about the menace of begging and extortion at our international airports by a few unscrupulous persons who give all of us a bad image. My phones are beeping every minute with messages about this from well-meaning Nigerians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While addressing the issue, Keyamo clarified that many of the agencies implicated in these activities do not fall under the Aviation Ministry&#8217;s jurisdiction, even though they operate within the airports. He emphasized his ongoing collaboration with other government ministers and relevant agencies to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A solution is in sight soon,&#8221; Keyamo assured. &#8220;We are all working under the coordination of the National Security Adviser, who called a meeting a few days ago on this issue. We shall soon unveil practical steps being taken to stem this ugly tide. We thank Nigerians for their eternal vigilance on this issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This coordinated effort signals a unified approach to improving the integrity and image of Nigeria&#8217;s international airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Festus Keyamo, Nigeria&#8217;s Aviation Minister, has acknowledged numerous complaints regarding begging and extortion at the country&#8217;s international airports. Keyamo stated, &#8220;I have received several complaints about the menace of begging and extortion at our international airports by a few unscrupulous persons who give all of us a bad image. My phones are beeping every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,346,366,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-economy","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}