Riensi:
Any time people ask me which country are you originally from due to my accent. I simply tell them Igboland. Nigeria is a monumental disgrace.

raayah:
This is extortion point blank.
Big disgrace and embarrassment to Nigeria as a whole.
These are the first people that international travellers when they reach Nigeria.

Why frustrate an innocent person just because of $50?

On Sunday, these officials will go to church and pay offering with stolen money and some of them will even go on-line to judge others yet they are not better.

ThoniaSlim:
They did this to me the first time I left the country in 2006 for studies. I was just 17 then and this old agbaya removed $100 from the pocket money my dad gave me to use till when I was able to open a bank account.

I started crying there at the top of my voice. Imagine a small girl crying because of an old man in public. Everyone was just staring but I didn't care. The man was so embarrassed that he gave me my money back and even bought a bottle of water for me to calm me down. That was how I escaped.

It's sad they haven't stopped this habit of extorting from first time travelers. Just sad!

where did you go study

What country was that

obinnashady:
I blame Booohari 4 all these sh*t.u are here to fight corruption yet corruption is on the rise everyday

nike4love:
If I want to travel I will bear the stress I usually go through ghana,or Cameroon the only language u will hear them say is safe journey,safe flight,bon voyage.I HATE NIG immigration useless officers.

ThoniaSlim:
They did this to me the first time I left the country in 2006 for studies. I was just 17 then and this old agbaya removed $100 from the pocket money my dad gave me to use till when I was able to open a bank account.

I started crying there at the top of my voice. Imagine a small girl crying because of an old man in public. Everyone was just staring but I didn't care. The man was so embarrassed that he gave me my money back and even bought a bottle of water for me to calm me down. That was how I escaped.

It's sad they haven't stopped this habit of extorting from first time travelers. Just sad!

DanG1:


Would you please pretend to be intelligent even though you aren't? Everything shouldn't be dragged into politics.

The cases of these immigration officers extorting innocent travelers is not a recent activity. It is a bad culture that has grown and become a norm in the Airport, our duty is to escalate these activities until authorities start looking into it.

I have been travelling since 2009 and I had same issues then and still face them till date.

I see the problems and I have different tales to tell. It is not politics, it is bad education and shamelessness of our officers at the airport

magicminister:

there is obviously more to this.
SHE ISN'T THE ONLY FIRST TIME TRAVELLER.
our immigration people will beg for money but they are never ever imposing.


anyway, i believe bribery and corruption of any kind should be severely dealt with

justi4jesu:


It is part of their routine.

RickRichards:
If I were president, corrupt officials would be summarily executed on the regular. Okay, maybe not summarily, and maybe I won't execute them, but they will live to rue the day they erred.

efilefun:
I might not be in Nigeria but i am pretty sure i am much more updated about happenings in Nigeria than you. With all the billions they confessing to have "borrowed" from the federation account how do you expect things to work suddenly. Were they working before

DanG1:


Just the same way these rotten words can sneak out from your thoughts, its same way you are totally rotten. I feel the need to sympathize with you as there is no cure for your kind of illness. Out of Nairaland I will still be able to advise you because who you are reflects already

obinnashady:
oga dey ur lane,leave me alone.we all are entitled to our different opinions,respect urself.

DanG1:


For this you are right. I have gone through Accra Airport and I have never had any regrets. But we need to voice out to be able to eradicate these from our country

okeyley:





thank God u are confessing u are not in the country now
but for ur information u don't kno more than I know for now.
Nigeria as a country lacks economic and political plans. that's why its in this mess

everything Nigeria is doing now is based on ethnicity and religion affiliation. so why won't the country grind to a halt.

if u try niaja now na run u go run comot

handie:
Sometimes, I just wish Buhari is still a soldier and not a democrat.... Now, he can't do anything without the courts(courts that are. Populated by corrupt officials). If na that time, the immigration officials won't even dare ask for bribe and if given, they'll decline. Biko can our constitution be suspended in corruption cases?