‘My Encounter with Crash Victims’ Aviation

‘My Encounter with Crash Victims’

She would never want to relive that gory experience when she saw dead bodies littered in the aircraft in different tragic pose. She felt painful pang in her stomach and came to the reality about the simple phenomenon of transition. From the look of their rumpled clothes, now soaked in blood and waste, she could […]

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Aviation Stakeholders Kick against Oronsaye Report

Aviation industry stakeholders and members of organised labour have kicked against the planned merger recommended in the Oronsaye Report, which recommended that the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) should merge with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to become Federal Civil Aviation Authority (FCAA). The stakeholders faulted the recommendation on […]

NAMA Boss Tasks Air Traffic Controllers on Airspace Safety

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has charged Air Traffic Controllers in the country to brainstorm and come up with practical and achievable solutions to problems encountered in the provision of air traffic control services in their respective airports across the country. Giving this charge at the recently concluded Annual General Meeting and Conference of […]

Great Expectations from NAMA

When the announcement came last week about the removal and replacement of some heads of aviation parastatals, industry stakeholders seemed relieved because most people were expectant that such changes should have taken place earlier. Early in 2016, fraud cases involving the then leadership of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) were uncovered and the Managing […]

Nigeria’s Precarious Airspace

A fortnight ago, the Senate Committee on Aviation visited the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, where it held a stormy interaction with aviation agency heads on how to reposition the sector. Led by its vice Chairman, Senator Bala Ibn N’allah who is also a pilot, the committee excoriated the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) for […]