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NAMA PARLEYS NAF ON AIRSPACE CO-ORDINATION



 The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is to sustain its
collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on strategic
management of the country’s airspace to enhance the overall safety of
both military and civil flights.

 A high-powered delegation of the Nigerian Air Force which paid a
courtesy visit to the Managing Director, Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam in
Lagos held crucial discussions with NAMA management on issues
bordering on collaborative airspace management, civil-military
coordination, training of Air Force officers by NAMA and the military
radar which is the military equivalent of TRACON.

The leader of the delegation and Director of Air Traffic Services,
Comdr. Bello Garba , explained that  the visit was to strengthen the
existing mutual relationship between the Nigerian Air Force and NAMA,
stressing that “this synergy is particularly critical in view of the
nation’s current security challenges”.

Comdr. Garba who appreciated NAMA’s role in quelling the on-going
insurgency in the North-Eastern part of the country solicited the
agency’s assistance in the provision of technical expertise in the
installation of a military radar and the needed capacity to man the
equipment.

In his remarks, the Managing Director, Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam noted
that the Nigerian Air Force has always been an ally of NAMA as the
statutory role of the two organizations are complimentary, stressing
that NAMA has always been at the forefront of the Civil-Military
Coordination meeting.

Engr. Abdulsalam stated that the on-going multilateration project in
the Gulf of Guinea would effectively capture low-level aircraft in the
area including military helicopters.  He promised that NAMA would
provide the Nigerian Air Force with the needed manpower training and
technical information on the military radar and other logistics.

Meanwhile, seven representatives of NAMA drawn from the Search and
Rescue Department  at the weekend  in Abuja   participated in a live
simulation exercise on air crash outside the vicinity of an Airport.

Organized by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the
exercise which took place at the National Fire Academy, Shada Abuja,
was among other things, to demonstrate the nation’s preparedness in
responding to air crash accidents as well as rescue coordination
strategies outside the confines of an aerodrome.

 Apart from NAMA, the event attracted representatives from other
relevant agencies such as NEMA, The Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency
(NCAA) and the Federal Road Safety Corps.

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