Author: Wole Shadare

Accelerates communications upgrade To boost the clarity of radio communication especially at the upper airspace, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has replaced all the Very High Frequency (VHF) radios at the existing eight remote sites in Lagos, Kano, Wukari, Sokoto, Ilorin, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Maiduguri. The agency has also added six new sites in Jos, Kaduna, Yola, Enugu, Benin and Calabar, Cross Rivers State making a total of fourteen VHF sites spread across…

  Nigeria is obviously grazing the surface of the nation’s booming drug trade. Despite the huge investment by both Nigeria and foreign countries, especially, the United States, which donated some body scanners to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) some years ago, traffickers are daily emboldened in carrying out their nefarious activities using the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Abuja airport. The drug barons who head the cartels and their couriers don’t…

 The Federal Government has vowed to tackle the challenges in the area of radio communications to ensure a safer sky.  The Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Capt. Folayele Akinkuotu said his agency was committed to a safe and efficient airspace reinforced with a first rate radio communications system for the country.  Akinkuotu stated this while was addressing an Air Controllers/Pilot Interactive Session in Lagos with the theme “Enhancing Safety of Flight Operations.”…

There are indications that the revenue of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has drastically dwindled due to loss of revenue from over-flier charges which form the bulk of the agency’s revenue. The paucity of funds has seriously affected the smooth running of the agency. Failure to quickly resolve the issue could further plunge the parastatal further into crisis. NAMA is self-sustaining. It generates its own resource and funds most of its projects from internally…

  Says agencies to collaborate to improve safer skies   To enable the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) comply with the requirements of the Act and the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB)  regulations, the aviation regulatory body disclosed that it has constituted a team of inspectors from the different technical areas and specialties of Airworthiness, Flight Operations, Air Navigation Services, Personnel Licensing and Aerodrome Operations.  The Director General of NCAA, Capt. Muhtar Usman in a statement…

AIB releases six reports  Agency releases 46 final reports, 178 recommendations The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB] likened the crash seven years ago of former Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai as suicide mission as the late governor who flew the Cessna 208BCaravan aircraft was ‘not certified, qualified and not competent to fly the ill-fated airplane’. The aircraft had no record of registration with the NCAA and had no record with any aircraft maintenance organisations; an indication…

…vows not to rebuild shut down equipment …NCC frowns at move Telecommunications operators in the country have called the bluff of the aviation industry regulator, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) over its threat to demolish 700 telecoms masts. The telcos said the agency would only throw Nigerians into service blackout as they would not make any attempt to rebuild any mast that is shut down. Expressing shock that NCAA would take such decision after a…

Dana Air’s passengers are in for an exciting time with the airline’s recently introduced product ‘Cash plus Miles’ for members of its reward program called Dana Miles.   With the new initiative, passengers flying Dana Air who are also members of the airline’s Loyalty and Reward program- Dana miles can now top up their miles balance with a little cash to get low fares 24 hours to their flight.   Speaking on the newly introduced…