In response to the security situation in the country, the federal government has introduced new measures to restrict the movement of people in sensitive areas of the five international airports in the country.
The Special Adviser to the president on Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Professor Sylvester Monye, made the disclosure yesterday while addressing journalists at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
The new measures, which would take effect on May 1, 2014, he said, require that all visitors to Nigeria, including foreign dignitaries and officials of multilateral institutions, to submit themselves to immigration officers for the requisite scrutiny and clearance at the designated airports which include Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu.
He added that the old practice where government protocol officials, aides of dignitaries, protocol officers of private companies, unauthorised uniformed and un-uniformed military and security officials moved unhindered in restricted areas around the airport terminal would no longer be tolerated.
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