{"id":76494,"date":"2025-10-11T19:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76494"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:52:19","slug":"passengers-nabbed-with-6-1m-at-lagos-airport-handed-to-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/11\/passengers-nabbed-with-6-1m-at-lagos-airport-handed-to-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers Nabbed With $6.1m at Lagos Airport, Handed to EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 1, Lagos, have arrested several passengers found with over $6.1 million in cash while attempting to board an Aero Contractors flight.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, reportedly young men acting on behalf of a politically exposed person, were intercepted by Aviation Security (AVSEC), officials at the domestic wing of the airport and later transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Airport sources confirmed the seizure, though details of the operation remain sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to obtain comments from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), were unsuccessful as its spokesperson, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, had yet to respond to inquiries at press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 1, Lagos, have arrested several passengers found with over $6.1 million in cash while attempting to board an Aero Contractors flight. The suspects, reportedly young men acting on behalf of a politically exposed person, were intercepted by Aviation Security (AVSEC), officials at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76494","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76496,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76494\/revisions\/76496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}