Who owns airports in nigeria

Read More. Have a question or need to complain? Passenger Rights Traveling by air or using air transport services confers certain rights. The right to book and confirm tickets with an airline of your choice. The more you sweat, the luckier you get".

As a corollary, Capt. Musa Shuaibu Nuhu did not become Director General of Nigeria's apex regulatory authority by a stroke of luck rather his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari was a fitting tribute to a stellar aviation career spanning over 36 years; beginning in as co-pilot B at the defunct Nigeria Airways. Read More Isiaka Kayode Ajiboye is a man who cannot be excused from any compendium on distinguished public servants of his time.

His intelligence, integrity and industry have been his greatest assets. There is no other quality as essential to success of any kinds as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes anything everything. That sterling quality Engr. He is also an iconic example of a self-made man in the mold of Benjamin Franklin. They set a course for greatness and proceeded to work without rest until their goals became a reality.

It was like a hen coming home to roost when on 2nd September, he was meritoriously appointed as the superintendent of the new-look Directorate of Air Worthiness Standards DAWS. No other anthem resonates among staffers than it is an appointment well deserved and well earned. Musa Shuaibu Nuhu has declared that the Authority is not out to kill any airlines but to fulfil its mandate of ensuring compliance with extant Regulations.

Musa Shuaibu Nuhu, helmsman of the regulatory agency as he added another year. The Director General, who clocked 57 on the 23rd April, was looking radiant and cheerful as he received senior management team and other members of staff in his Abuja office.

Background Flight by remotely piloted aircrafts RPAs in controlled airspace and over populated areas presents problems to the Authority in terms of ensuring the safety of other users of airspace and persons on the ground The Agency, as the Regulator, was in fact the first to comply with the directive as a way of encouraging others to follow suit.

It aims to address the following concerns: Read More Since that time the evolution of the outbreak was very rapid reaching out to the most of the countries worldwide majorly by air travel. But all other airports are liabilities. Aligbe, said apart from the state owned airport in Asaba and Uyo, none of the other state owned airports is generating enough revenue to maintain them.

These state governors, they will start the project, announce that they are bringing development to the people, there will be a fanfare and they will refer the airport project as dividends of democracy but these are liabilities of democracy because they spend so much resources on them and they have no idea what these airports will do in the future.

By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. Nothing will be happening there; maybe you are lucky, one flight can come in or you have executive flight flying into the airport for one function or the other and after that they go and that is all the airport will see. These are all liabilities. So FAAN is bearing so many liabilities and the parastatals are bearing so much liability on these state built airports.

States will find how to run the airports. The Belujane CEO said many airports built by the states were indebted to FAAN, but because FAAN is a government agency it cannot take a decisive decision of withdrawing its services from those airports, which would automatically ground the facilities as hosts to flight operations.

Or the people who are handing over to them must say this is what they will contribute annually in running the airport and if they don't provide it; then FAAN will not run the airport for them," Aligbe added. Read the original article on This Day. AllAfrica publishes around reports a day from more than news organizations and over other institutions and individuals , representing a diversity of positions on every topic.

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