Minister of Aviation and Aerospace
Three CEOs, 34 directors may be affected
Ten days to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and less than a week for the Ministers of the Federation to hand over to Permanent Secretaries in their Ministries, there are palpable signs that that Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Sen. Hadi Sirika, may reshuffle some top positions in the agencies under the his superintendent soon.
Sources close to the Ministry in Abuja confided in our correspondent on Friday that the shakeup would see at least three CEOs relieved of their appointments by Monday while some of the 34 directors in the six agencies would have their appointments terminated or redeployed to other directorates.
Our correspondent gathered that though some of CEOs were aware of the plans and are prepared for the ultimate.
One of the CEOs, our source gathered, would be concluding his four year tenure by this weekend and the possibility of getting tenure renewal of the appointment remains very thin
Following are agencies and number of their directorates:
FAAN has eight directorates; Directorate of Commercial & Business Development, Directorate of Finance and Accounts, Directorate of Engineering Services, Directorate of Airport Security Services, Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Directorate of Human Resources & Administration, Directorate of Airport Operations and Directorate of Revenue.
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has six directorates namely; Airworthiness Standards, Operations, Licensing & Training, Aerodrome & Airspace Standard, Air Transport Regulation, Finance & Accounts and Human Resources and Administration.
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is composed of five directorates namely; Directorate of Safety and Electronic Services, Directorate of Operations, Directorate of Human Resource/Administration, Directorate of Finance & Account and Legal Advisory.
For the NSIB, there are four directorates, which are; Directorate of Engineering, Directorate of Operations, Directorate of Human Resource & Administration and Legal Advisory.
For the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (Nimet), there are six directorates, which are Weather Forecasting Services, Applied Meteorological Services, Research and Training, Directorate of Human Resource and Administration, Directorate of Finance and Accounts, and Directorate of Engineering and Technical Services, and Directorate of Legal.
Also, the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria has about five directorates.
