“Nigeria’s Airspace Safest in Africa for Navigation”  – NAMA

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, has stated that the nation’s airspace remains one of the safest in Africa continent for air navigation.

The Ag. Managing Director of NAMA, Emma Anasi, who spoke at the demonstration of Aircraft e-Clearance User Acceptance Test Module to National Air Defence Corp, security agencies and other stakeholders in Port Harcourt, Rivers State over the weekend, said that the agency in the recent past has deployed sophisticated technology and navigational infrastructure intended to enhance efficiency in its operations as well as safety of air travel in the country.

He stressed that the deployment of Aircraft e-Clearance Solution was another innovation by NAMA to automate its operations and also ease the process of aircraft flight clearances which used to be very tedious and cumbersome in the past.

Anasi who was represented at the occasion by the Port Harcourt Airspace Manager, Gabriel Akpen explained that the huge investment NAMA was making in automating its processes was in line with global best practices.

He therefore assured that the agency was ready to accommodate all the views and suggestions from stakeholders on how the system could be made to function better.