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PARASTATALS

The Parastatals are:

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET)
The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT)

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)

This aviation parastatals is responsible for the provision of seamless Air Traffic Management Services for the local and International airline operations. It is led by a Managing Director and supported by five Directors.

Act No 48 established NAMA on 26 May 1999, as a body corporate with perpetual succession and common seal. The Agency operates under Nigerian laws, rules and regulations based on the framework established by the Chicago Convention, which regulates international civil aviation. The major civil aviation organisations with which the Agency has a relationship are the International Civil Aviation Organisation, (ICAO) the Ministry of Aviation, (FMA) Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA) Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, (FAAN) Nigerian Meteorological Agency, (NIMET) and the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, (NCAT) Zaria as well as the Federal Ministry of Communication who assigns radio frequencies.

Functions

The statutory function of the Agency is to provide a safe, secure, efficient and economic air navigation service in consonance with international standards. The basic functions of the Agency are as follows:

• To provide air traffic services, including air traffic control, aeronautical telecommunications, visual and non visual aids, to enable public transport, private business and military aircraft fly, as far as practicable and possible.

• To generally secure the safety, efficiency and regularity of air navigation.

• To require persons engaged in, employed in or in connection with air navigation to supply meteorological information for the purpose of air navigation as might be deemed appropriate from time to time.

• To provide adequate facilities and personnel for effective security of navigational aids outside the airport perimeters.

• To procure, install and maintain adequate communication, navigation and surveillance and air traffic management facilities at all airports.

• To ensure an effective co-ordination in the use of the Nigerian Airspace in line with established standards and procedures.

• To hold meetings with the armed forces on Nigeria’s international obligations as they relate to civil and military co ordinations.

• To maintain permanent liaison with the civil air traffic services units and relevant air defense units in order to ensure the daily integration or segregation of civil and military air traffic operating within the same or immediately adjacent portions of the Nigerian Airspace employing civil or military radars as necessary.

• To obviate the need for civil aircraft to obtain special air defense clearance

• To take necessary steps to prevent as far as possible, penetration of controlled airspace by any aircraft, civil or military, without co-ordination with the air traffic control unit concerned

• Undertake systems engineering development and implementation for Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and air traffic management.

• Charge for services provided by the Agency.

• To co-ordinate the implementation of Aeronautical Search and Rescue services, and

• To discharge the operational, technical and financial air traffic service commitments arising from Nigeria’s membership of international organizations and other air navigation agencies.

Structure of NAMA

The Agency has a governing Board which is headed by a part time chairman who is appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A Managing Director/Chief Executive who is also the accounting officer heads the Management team of the Agency.

The Agency has four (4) Directorates, namely:-

• Air Traffic Services
• Safety Electronic Services
• Administration and Supplies
• Finance

The Managing Director, the four Directors, Secretary to the Agency and other staff are all responsible to the Board for the day-to-day administration and operations of the Agency.

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