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Nama Recruitment To Reflect Federal Character
The recruitment drive by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is designed to reflect the federal character of the country apart from specific qualifications, the General Manager, Public Affairs of the agency, Supo Atobatele, has said.
He said in the next one month, qualified candidates would be invited for interview from where 40 successful air traffic engineers would be engaged. Supo said this in an interview in Lagos.
He said: “We recruited Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) officers last year. This year, we are in the process of inviting some qualified Nigerians. We have to take into consideration the federal character principle, graduates, fresh graduates whose qualifications dates back to 2007 and above. In the next three to four weeks, we are going to invite the qualified ones for a test at Nigeria College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) to be conducted by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC.)
The NAMA spokesman said the agency has got a succession plan with the planned retirement of some engineers. He said this year, ‘we expect some of our engineers to retire.’
According to him, “some will retire this year, but not very many. It’s a regular thing; in the government agency, when you get to a certain age, whichever one comes first either by year of service which is 35 or 60 years of age.
“As one is leaving, the next person takes over. But the most important thing that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director General has been hammering on is ageing personnel in the industry, not only at NAMA; it cuts across the entire industry.