{"id":72739,"date":"2025-08-11T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72739"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:26:53","slug":"ibom-air-passenger-slaps-crew-member-in-lagos-airport-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/ibom-air-passenger-slaps-crew-member-in-lagos-airport-confrontation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibom Air Passenger Slaps Crew Member in Lagos Airport Confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An altercation broke out at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Sunday after the arrival of an Ibom Air flight from Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses and videos circulating on social media, a visibly agitated female passenger engaged in a shouting match with airline staff before allegedly slapping a flight attendant. Security officials and airport police quickly intervened to restore order.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72743\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250811-WA0025-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250811-WA0025-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250811-WA0025-1024x912.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250811-WA0025-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250811-WA0025.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Achimugu, Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), said the incident stemmed from the passenger\u2019s refusal to obey basic crew instructions, including switching off her mobile phone during takeoff and landing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a passenger comes with responsibilities, not just rights,\u201d Achimugu stressed, urging travelers to comply with safety protocols to prevent similar confrontations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that a full account of the incident would be released once investigations are complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; An altercation broke out at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Sunday after the arrival of an Ibom Air flight from Uyo. &nbsp; According to eyewitnesses and videos circulating on social media, a visibly agitated female passenger engaged in a shouting match with airline staff before allegedly slapping a flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72744,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72739\/revisions\/72744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}