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Nigeria in the last seven (7) years has made significant investment in the procurement of ground based navigational facilities with over 15new Doppler Very High Omni-directional Radio (VORS), over 15 new lnstrument Landing Systems ( ILS) Category II and Five (5) new Instrument Landing Systems Category III . The country has also invested heavily inthe deployment of ground communication facilities …

Captain Ibrahim Mshelia, Chairman of West Link has described as a welcome development, the Director General Civil Aviation’s plans to review the National Aviation Policy for the development of the industry saying he has made his submissions. This is just as he has criticised what he described as disingenuous state weather minima laws, wondering why the country would pay so …

The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Honourable Nnolim Nnaji requested the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika to give clarification on the exclusion of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, (NAMA) in the 2023 Appropriation Bill as the agency is a critical safety arm of the aviation sector that must not be ignored. Honourable Nnaji stated this during the …

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 …

MANAGING director, Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Captain Fola Akinkuotu has called for more funding to protect newly procured and installed safety critical facilities around the country disclosing that there have been instances where the facilities were vandalized in Port Harcourt, Enugu and Owerri thereby impacting on safety. This is just as he revealed that the Federal Government has approved …

NO fewer than 600 retired staff of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) have accused the agency of ‘fraudulently’ diverting about N1.5 billion pension funds revealing that the fraud dated as far back as 2003. This has been followed by a swift denial of the alleged crime by the agency. The pensioners, under the auspices of Airspace Management Pensioners Association …

the world is on break, nothing is happening… authorities have reeled out things and these things come with a huge cost. How will airlines manage that and pay about thirty-seven 37 charges. The airlines are going to bear the brunt of all this. I do not want free money that I cannot account for. This is not an opportunity to ask for money to buy new plane. In fact this intervention should be for the work force. I have over 3, 000 staff at Air Peace, these people’s livelihood are endangered and you must do everything possible to keep jobs in the country.

THE directive from the Minister of Aviation to all aviation agencies to relocate their agencies’ headquarters to Abuja in the next 45 amid the battle against COVID-19 has not gone unnoticed by stakeholders some of which have expressed divergent opinions on the directive giving its raison d’etre and its timing. Nigerianflightdeck last Friday reported that the Ministry of Aviation directed …

THE Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that its Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) automation is fully on course and has not been abandoned thus exposing its AIS personnel to the Covid-19 pandemic NAMA in a reactionary statement signed by General Manager Public Affairs, Khalid Emele said nothing can be farther from the truth explaining that the AIS Automation contract …

FEDERAL Ministry of Aviation has directed all agencies and parastatals under its watch to relocate their corporate headquarters to the Federal Capital Territory Abuja in the next forty-five (45) days hence reenacting the botched 2012 Presidential directive. With this directive, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Accident Investigation Bureau …