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Rewane: Five airlines control 75% of Nigeria’s domestic air traffic

Awwal Owolabi 9 August 2025 0

Bismarck Rewane, chief executive of Financial Derivatives Company (FDC), says only five domestic airlines account for 75 percent of air traffic out of 23 active operators in the country. Rewane spoke on Thursday while delivering a presentation titled Aviation Financing in Nigeria: Risks,

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Poor landing aid: Air traffic controllers under stress in aircraft separation

Ihesiulo Grace 9 January 2020 0

Air traffic controllers in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency NAMA are presently suffering untold hardship following the epileptic state of Cat 3 Instrument Landing Systems installed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.  The controllers, Daily Times gathered that the poor state of landing aid at the airport has kept the controllers on their toes […]

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Association harps on cyber security competence

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2019 0

President of the National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE), Mr. Ishaya Dung, has stressed the need for competence in cyber security to protect and boost air services. Dung made this known at NAAE’s 2019 annual general meeting with the theme: “Satellite based ADS-B technology and the relevance to ATSEP job” in Abuja. Automatic Dependent […]

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Aero Contractors boss seeks licensing, certification of ATSEP

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2018 0

A key player in the nation’s aviation industry has observed that recognition of licensing and certification Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP) should be given utmost priority. Managing director /CEO of Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi disclosed in a paper he delivered at the 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the National Association of Air […]

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NAAE wants more engineers licensed, trained

Ihesiulo Grace 16 November 2018 0

Members of the National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE) have called for the training of its personnel in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency NAMA to enable them to get licensed. The President of the NAAE Engr Ishaya Dung while heralding the association’s Annual General Meeting said a large number of Air Traffic Engineers engineers […]

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NATCA to host IFATCA

Ihesiulo Grace 20 February 2018 0

The Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) has won the bid to host the forthcoming Africa and Middle East Regional meeting of International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Association (IFATCA). Nigeria emerged the host after defeating Algeria, which equally indicated interest to host the annual conference in its country. It would be the second time