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Abuja airport closure: NAMA upgrades Kaduna navigation aids

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The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, said it has commenced the upgrading of navigational facilities at the Kaduna airport, ahead of the closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for repairs on the runway.

Mathew Pwajo, the NAMA General Manager, Safety Management Systems/Quality Assurance, made the disclosure at a news conference on Sunday in Lagos.

He said the Abuja airport is scheduled to be shut for the six weeks repairs on March 8.

Mr. Pwajok explained that the upgrade was to absorb the increased volume of traffic to be diverted from Abuja to Kaduna airport.

He added that “toward this end, we are deploying both equipment and personnel to strategic areas of need to ensure seamless flow of traffic at the airport during the six-week period.”

The NAMA general manager said the agency had commenced the installation of a digital Instrument Landing System (ILS) at the Kaduna airport.

“This facility would undergo flight calibration along with Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR) already installed to ensure accuracy.

“NAMA is also currently conducting safety assessment of the entire Kaduna airport to ensure that it conforms to international safety standards, just as new equipment are being procured for the control tower under construction.

“A mobile control tower will also be deployed to the airport to support the old control tower already in use.”

Mr. Pwajok added that while the Abuja radar would be used to provide surveillance of traffic moving in and out of Kaduna and also provide safety and efficiency of flight operations, new generating sets would be installed.

“The facilities will provide secondary power supply to the navigational aids, as cooling systems will also be installed soon.

“Other facilities already deployed at the station include a low level wind shear alerting system and other cooling systems.

“The Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures for satellite-based navigation capability have been published for aircraft that are equipped to use for approach and landing, rather than ground aids.

In the area of personnel, he said various categories of personnel would be deployed to the airport to complement available manpower in Kaduna throughout the duration of the Abuja airport closure.

According to him, they include Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), Communications, Air Traffic Control and Engineering officers.

Meanwhile, the Managing Director of NAMA, Fola Akinkuotu, who recently inspected the facility upgrade at the airport, expressed satisfaction with the level work.

He said the sophisticated nature of facilities being installed meant that Kaduna would be an excellent alternative to Abuja airport.

 

Source: NAN

FG Appoints NAMA’s Director Of Safety, Engineering Services

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The federal Government yesterday appointed Alhaji Farouk Ahmed Umar as Acting Director, Safety Electronics and Engineering Services (DSEES) of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).

Umar, a 1988 graduate and was until his appointment the General Manager, Special Project Unit, Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA).

He had served at top management level in various capacities as Airspace Manager, Minna Airport.

He was also General Manager, Procurement at NAMA Headquarters in Lagos.

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Reps To Investigate Activities Of NCAA, NAMA, FAAN

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The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, mandated it’s Committee on Aviation to investigate activities of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

The committee is to ascertain the extent to which the three organisations complied with their responsibilities of ensuring the airworthiness of aircraft operating within the country’s airspace.

The House also urged NAMA to ensure that there was regular update of weather conditions for the departure of airlines.

NAMA would also ensure that airline operators did not schedule flights when the weather was unsafe.

The resolutions by the House followed a motion by Rep. Sergius Ogun (Edo-PDP) which was unanimously adopted by members through a voice vote.

Moving the motion, Ogun said that with the regulatory agencies and the range of functions they were mandated to carry out, the frequency of air crashes in the country called to question the expertise and competence of these regulatory agencies.

He said “laws such as the Montreal Convention of 1999, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Act 2006 and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulation 2012 make ample provisions to compensate victims of air crashes for loss of lives and injuries, but such provisions are incapable of replacing the lost lives.

“If thorough investigation of the activities of airline operators is carried out to ascertain the airworthiness of aircraft operating in the country, it will help in no small measure to minimise the frequency of air crashes in the country.”

It would also improve the rating of the country’s aviation sector globally.

 

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Ghana Agency Seeks NAMA’s Support To Manage Airspace

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The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority has solicited the support of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) in the co-management of the Accra airspace. This included Togo and Benin as against (Agency for Arial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar’s (ASECNA’s) plan to sectorize the airspace.

This was disclosed by the visiting top-level technical team of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority led by its Director General, Abdulahi Alhassan, at the NAMA headquarters complex in Lagos after a facility tour of some of the agency’s installations at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos including the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) site and Control Tower.

The team also expressed delight in the capacity and performance of the TRACON equipment in guaranteeing safety of air navigation in the country. “We are highly impressed with what we have seen here, both in terms of technical infrastructure and human capacity to effectively man these facilities and guarantee safety of air travel in the country,”  Alhassan said.

He said ASECNA had not followed due process in its bid to sectorize the Accra airspace. “It is our belief that ASECNA has not followed due process in its bid to sectorize the Accra airspace. It is a matter that the three bodies (ASECNA, GCAA and NAMA) should discuss on a round table because of its regional safety and security implications and the position of Ghana is that we co-manage the airspace rather than sectorize it,” added Alhassan.

Managing Director of NAMA, Engineer Ibrahim Abdulsalam, maintained was disposed to a peaceful and amicable resolution of aviatIon issues. “We are committed to co-operating with both Ghana and ASECNA in our determination to ensure safety of the African sky,” Abdulsalam said.

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