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Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has listed three key requirements for airlines willing to use the Performance Based Navigation ( PBN) which it has fully implemented stressing that usage will provide navigational accuracy, provide cost-effective and efficient flight operations as well as aid reduce CO2 emissions among others. Mr. Mathew Lawrence Pwajok, the Ag managing director of the agency the …

Seeking to increase government’s revenue base, Naebi Dynamic Concepts Limited, an indigenous aviation consulting firm has been designated to collect charges from over 250 helicopters platforms, oil rigs platforms, airstrips, aerodromes, helipads, helipods and Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FSPO) across the country The initiative, according to the managing director of the firm, Mr. Chike Stanley would help plug leakages …

Following the recent allegation by a Dubai-bound Nigerian citizen of sharp practices by some Nigeria Immigration personnel during passenger clearance which occurred about three (3) weeks ago at the Lagos Airport, the Comptroller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris, MFR, has ordered an investigation into the matter. This is just as he has threatened stiff sanction on any staff found …

With the level of piracy, oil theft and other forms of criminal activities in the Gulf of Guinea, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) will soon complete its $12.9million Wide Area Multi-Lateration project that will provide surveillance for low flying helicopters, unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as monitoring coastal areas for ships . Ag managing director of NAMA, Mr. …

Says local engineers maintaining TRACON Project optimally since 2014 Nigerian Airspace Management Agency ( NAMA) says the N23bn approved by the Federal Executive Council ( FEC) in February for the upgrade of the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria ( TRACON) would encompass hardware and software upgrade and migration from EUROCAT system to a higher TopSky radar system. This is just …

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh OFR, has called for maritime nations to actualize the adoption of modern technology as a means of attaining cleaner and greener shipping in line with this year’s World Maritime Day commemoration theme. Dr Jamoh, who stated this while speaking on the sidelines of the World …

Ethiopian Airlines Group has announced the completion of passenger to freighter conversion of one of its three B767 aircraft, the first in Africa. Ethiopian partnered with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and launched a B767-300ER freighter conversion line at Ethiopian MRO facilities in Addis Ababa. The airline introduced these aircraft models in 2004 and has completed the conversion of one  of …

Federal government has officially granted approval authorising Lagos State to embark on the development of a passenger and cargo airport on the Lekki-Epe axis of the State. The Minister for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, presented the document to the Governor on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ongoing Lagos Economic Summit (Ehingbeti) 2022 taking place at Eko Hotels and …

The Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative ( ASRTI) has expressed support of the decision of the Lagos State Government to build an airport  in the Lekki axis advocating  a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model and the need for the Ministry through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) to give necessary support and approvals for the project. The ASRTI in …

The European Aviation Safety Agency ( EASA) through the European Network of Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authorities (ENCASIA) has expressed readiness to share the tenets of the European Co-ordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems (ECCAIRS) with the Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA) once the modalities are finalized by the International Civil Aviation Organisation ( ICAO). This …