The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has condemned the actions of the head of the Department of State Security whom it said breached security procedures and assaulted an aviation security official at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja.
In a tweet on Wednesday, FAAN noted with dismay that “Safiyanu Abba, the head of DSS, at NAIA deliberately obstructed the airport security process, and slapped an Aviation Security Officer who was performing his duty”.
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“We are calling on Safiyanu Abba to desist from doing so. This happened on the 17th July at about 15:25 hours. He breached security procedure by obstructing further searching of a visitor who had just walked through the metal detector and activated the alarm,” the airports authority tweeted via its official handle @FAAN_Official.
“FAAN strongly condemns this abuse of power and the security process in our airport. This has also been duly escalated,” it said.
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers.
She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay.
She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos.
As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender.
She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies.
Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the
prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category.
She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category.
She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations.
Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.
