Nigeria: Mali - Demuren Calls for Enhanced Security Alert At Airports

29 January 2013

The Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, has called on security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to be at alert over possible terror attack that might be carried out due to the ongoing crisis in Mali.

Since Nigeria and other African nations deployed soldiers to the West African country in collaboration with the French army to oust terrorists that took over northern Mali more than a year ago, the terrorists have threatened to carry out terror attacks on countries that provided support to quell the crisis there.

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