Many Nigerians are anxious while travelling by air in the country. Their anxiety is occasioned by the number of air crashes recorded so far, which experts described as outrageous and tragic, considering the fact that Nigeria has relatively low air traffic. Chinedu Eze writes that government’s efforts to provide more equipment to further improve safety […]
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is at the completion stage of its pet project, the Wide Area Multilateration(WAM) system, which is surveillance system to cover the Nigeria’s delta region. The agency said it has recorded a milestone with the handover of 29 sites by the agency to ERA /CWA for system parts installation, including […]
Protesting Air Traffic Controllers on Tuesday disrupted flight operations and insisted on improved welfare and better working tools. Air traffic controllers were stung with pain and grief after they lost one of their own, the late Mr. Aniekan Effiong Inuk who slumped while on duty in the early morning of Monday, November 22, 2021 at […]
Nigerian Communication Satellite Ltd (NIGCOMSAT), the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) and Thales Alenia Space are joining efforts to accelerate Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) development for aviation and other sectors of the economy in Nigeria and in Africa. The objective of this development is to improve communication, surveillance and […]
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Capt. Fola Akinkuotu has assured airlines and other airspace users of the determination of the agency to work assiduously towards building upon the current safety profile of the nation’s airspace. Capt. Akinkuotu who made these remarks in a statement to mark his first anniversary as […]
