In line with its objective to maintain a healthy and productive workforce that would keep the nation’s airspace safe, the management of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)h as concluded plans to enroll its staff into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the next two months
NAMA has also assured the workers that the contentious issue of review of their Condition of Service (COS) was being handled and would soon be concluded by government.
These were made known at a town hall meeting with staff at the agency’s headquarters annex in Ikeja Lagos, the Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu.
The NAMA boss expressed gratitude to management and staff of the agency for the support and cooperation accorded him over the past two years since he became the Chief Executive Officer, NAMA, said that whatever successes his administration has recorded could not have been without the individual and collective effort of the workers.
While cautioning staff to desist from frivolous expenses, he enjoined them to “put in more effort to move NAMA to the next level,” stressing that the agency would recognize hard work by giving special awards to deserving members of staff.
On the core area of its operations, Akinkuotu disclosed that NAMA has lifted social and economic activities in the ancient city of Benin City and Edo State in general with the commissioning of Category II Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Benin Airport.
He said the equipment was recently installed by NAMA in line with an earlier pledge by the agency to upgrade navigational infrastructure in strategic airports across the country in a bid to boost socio-economic activities in such areas.
Akinkuotu also announced that the agency has equally installed and commissioned the ILS at Port Harcourt airport which was damaged by an aircraft last year, saying that the flight commissioning which was handled by Omni-Blue Aviation Ltd indicated that the newly installed landing aids were operating at optimal capacity. He also hinted that in the same vein, installation of CAT II ILS would commence at Maiduguri, Jos and Minna airports in the northern parts of the country.
