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MANAGING DIRECTOR UNVEILS NAMA ACT

The Managing Director, Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam, has challenged all staff of the agency to have a clear understanding of the provisions of the act establishing NAMA as it relates to their various job functions. Engr. Abdulsalam, who made this remark at the official presentation of the NAMA ACT HANDBOOK at NAMA headquarters in Lagos, noted that “as a primary reference document, the Act would make for better understanding and appreciation of the mandate, functions and roles of the agency, thereby  enhancing  optimum performance and better service delivery”, stressing that “every staff has a part to play in the working and success of the Act through collective synergy”   Earlier in her address, the Legal Adviser, Mrs Anastasia Gbem, described the Act as the basic working document which every NAMA staff must take pains to understand its provisions as “the foundation of our very existence as an organization is derived therefrom”. Meanwhile, a committee to look at critical aspects of the Act  requiring amendment is to be set up with one member from each of the directorates.

 

OSITA CHIDOKA SWORN IN AS MINISTER OF AVIATION

Erstwhile Corps Marshal of Nigeria, Mr Osita Chidoka was on Wednesday appointed as substantive Minister of Aviation by President Goodluck Jonathan. Born in 1971, Mr Chidoka who hails from Obosi, in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State is a Business Management graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His tenure as the Chief Executive officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps in from 2007 to 2014 saw to several innovations in the agency, leading to a drastic reduction of statistics of carnage on Nigerian roads. He is married with children.

 

ADEROSOYE TAKES A BOW

The cold hands of death have snatched an Assistant General Manager in Communications Department at MMIA, Prince Philip Aderosoye. Appointed as a Telephone Operator in 1983 in the then Civil Aviation Department (CAD), the late Aderosoye later obtained a B.Sc degree in Accounting from the University of Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. He was deployed from FAAN to NAMA in 2000. Aderosoye who died in the early hours of Monday, 28/7/14 is survived by a wife and children.

 

…PETER ABAH TOO

Death is also announced of Mr Peter Abah, a Senior Motor Driver Mechanic attached to the Transport Department. Born in 1982, the late Peter Abah who also died on Monday the 28th of July, 2014 was employed in 2013. He is survived by a wife and a young son.

 

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