Nigeria, drug conduit
There's a good reason you cannot fly directly from Nigeria to the US and it has nothing to do with distances or airport capacities.Can a country plagued by corruption and lack of transparency, deal with a problem that thrives behind the scenes and depends upon payoffs.
Nigeria's drug trade: That's all they needed
"A FAIRLY typical recent morning at Murtala Mohammed, Lagos's main airport, saw four traffickers carrying cocaine, heroin or marijuana caught, arrested and X-rayed before noon...
"West Africa is the newest centre for trafficking drugs into Europe...
"[A]s the economic hub of west Africa, Nigeria has, inevitably, also become its drug-trafficking hub. Last year 44% of the west African drug-traffickers arrested in Europe were Nigerian...
"Nigeria's history of fighting the scourge is not the sort to discourage dealers. Its drug agency, founded in 1990, was immediately immersed in scandal when its own top people were themselves found to be involved in trafficking...
"The network of gangs and dealers means that drugs are increasingly available on Nigeria's streets..."
Labels: corruption, Nigeria
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:10 AM
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Correction: From This Day (Lagos)
Nigeria: Arik, Virgin Nigeria Begin Flights to U.S. Next Year
"Two local airlines, Arik Air and Virgin Nigeria, will start flying directly to the United States of America in 2008...
"North American Airlines currently flies direct to New York while Delta Airlines, which recently began operations in Nigeria, flies direct to Atlanta, Georgia with a plan to also fly directly to New York from June 2008."
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