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NAMA boss tasks African aviation experts on air safety

 
9/12/13.
PRESS RELEASE
NAMA  boss  tasks  African  aviation experts on  air  safety
 The managing director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Engr. Mazi Nnamdi Udoh on Monday in Lagos tasked African aviation experts to always strive for the best in their respective fields to ensure safety in the African skies.
 The NAMA boss, addressing participants at a three day meeting of Inter-Flight Information Region (FIR) coordination between Nigeria and her airspace neighbours, said with the election of an African, Nigeria’s Dr.Olumuyiwa Aliu as the president of the civil aviation body–ICAO, there is the need for the aviation experts in the continent to renew efforts in turning African airspace to one of  the best in the world.
 Engr. Udoh , further remarked that African air travel market has demonstrated a potential growth of about 7% which makes the highest in the global world.
 Participating Flight Information Regions (FIR) include; Niamey, Libreville, Brazzaville, N’djamena, Doula, Accra and ASECNA Dakar.
  The meeting, is intended to foster co-operation and harmony in the area of inter-operability of systems between adjacent FIRs, seamlessness of flights between the FIRs and effective co-ordination within the region.
Also to be deliberated are challenges of coordination between FIRs, cross border search and rescue operations and review of letters of agreement between contiguous FIRs.
Signed
‘Supo Atobatele ,gm,pa,nama,hqtr.Lagos.
 
 

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