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Aviation agencies near insolvency over 50% deduction, unions, workers to shut sector

Posted on August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The aviation agencies are reeling under immense financial difficulty owing to the deduction from source of 50% of their revenue which has made them prostrate and unable to meet their statutory functions. As a result, there are indications that the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and others may no longer be able to pay the salaries of workers aside from the fact that aviation safety could be compromised as a result of the Federal Government’s…

For 13 years, aviation agencies operated without governing board

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Wole Shadare

Olowo lauds sector’s, seeks Minister’s intervention in board appointment Successive governments have continued to violate the Acts establishing virtually all the aviation agencies as the parastatals have continued to operate without a governing board for 13 years the last ones for the agencies were scrapped by former President Goodluck Jonathan. The agencies without board are the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nigerian College…

Oransanye Report: Merger of Aviation Agencies’ll Spell Disaster, Stakeholders Tell FG

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Wole Shadare

The aviation industry was thrown into a frenzy last week when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed the implementation of the Stephen Orosanye report which recommended the merging, scrapping and subsuming of government agencies. Not a few thought that the Federal Government had jettisoned the controversial decision to merge many of the Ministry, Department, or Agency (MDAs) to save costs. Since the announcement, workers in the aviation industry have begun to fret over the plan by…

Runway incursion: Aero Contractors cooperating with aviation agencies

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Wole Shadare

Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s oldest aviation company is cooperating with the relevant agencies following a runway incursion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja this afternoon. All passengers were safely evacuated through a controlled disembarkation. Flight NG 119 with a registered Boeing 737 aircraft 5N-BYQ from Lagos to Abuja had a total of 133 passengers on board. The Managing Director of Aero Contractors, Capt. Ado Sanusi said, “We apologise for the inconveniences caused to our…

To breathe, aviation agencies want TSA shackles broken

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Wole Shadare

The aviation agencies are in dire need of financial independence. They cannot spend what they earn to develop the sector the way they claimed they would have done. Who knows, their agitation could make the Federal Government remove them from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) which has helped to curb massive heists in MDAs but at the same time slowed down developmental projects, Writes, WOLE SHADARE Background The Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy was introduced to…