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ASECNA partners NAMA on single sky



…GIVES PASSMARK TO TRACON
Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) and the Nigerian Airspace Managing Agency (NAMA) are to collaborate and partner on air navigation services to promote  safety and  provide seamlessness in airspace coordination within the AFI region.

In his remarks, Mr Guitteye stated that their visit to Nigeria was pursuant to the Cotonou declaration of 2010 which harped on “the need for African ANSPs to move to a single African sky through close collaboration, coordination and partnership that would bring about a standardized, harmonized, seamless and interoperable CNS/ATM systems within intra and adjacent FIRs.”  

 The ASECNA boss noted that with the impending sectorization of Accra FIR which hitherto included Benin and Togo airspaces, soon to be taken over by ASECNA, there was the need to review letters of procedures with Nigeria, as the closest neighbour to ASECNA in the region.
  Amadou also solicited collaboration in the area of cross-border search and rescue and training of critical manpower.
In his welcome address, the Managing Director of NAMA, Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam noted that an inter-FIR collaboration with ASECNA who are all-round neighbours to Nigeria is a welcome development as it would be of mutual benefit to both parties and “we look forward to a very fruitful collaboration and cooperation between Nigeria and  ASECNA countries.’’

The ASECNA delegation which later paid a courtesy call on the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation, Alh. Mohammed Abbas, was also led by the NAMA MD on an inspection tour of the agency’s facilities at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Facilities inspected include the Control Tower, Equipment Room, VSAT Earth Station, Instrument Landing Systems, Localizers as well as the TRACON centre.
Speaking after the facility tour, the ASECNA DG described the facilities as excellent. ‘’We are very impressed about what we have seen today. From the navigational aids to the TRACON centre, we learnt a lot and it has given us more confidence in the ability of NAMA to guarantee safety of air navigation in the region. We also discovered from our interaction that Nigeria has very capable technical manpower managing these infrastructure and we shall continue to exchange ideas and technologies, all targeted at enhancing air safety on the continent of Africa.’’


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