Tectonic shift

What appears on the surface to be a petty bureaucratic turf war is, in reality, a symptom of a deeper, structural financing crisis, writes WOLE SHADARE Nigeria’s aviation sector is currently locked in a high-stakes, fiscal staring contest. A fierce proxy war has erupted between two sister agencies—the apex regulator, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), and the nation’s Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). At the centre of this multi-billion-naira storm…