NAMA Boosts Capacity With Rating Of 40 Controllers

The Nigeria Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA), has increased its manpower capacity with the training and rating of 40 Air Traffic Controllers by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
The Air Traffic Controllers (ATC), who cut across different cadres got their rating after successfully passing the oral, practical and written examinations conducted in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt as well as Benin airports and supervised by the regulatory authority.
A total of 43 Air Traffic Controllers took part in the rigorous rating examinations held between November and December 2014, on Aerodrome Approach Approach Radar, Area / Airways and Areas Control Surveillance. Out of this number, 40 were successful while three were not.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director of the agency, Ibrahim Abdulsalam has commended the air traffic controllers for Justifying the huge resources invested in the exercise by coming out with an impressive result.
In a statement, Abdulsalam said, “as part of management’s strategy to build a robust safety infrastructure across the Nigerian airspace, training and re-training of critical manpower has remained the focal point of his administration.
While congratulating the air traffic controllers on their brilliant performances, Abdulsulam, expressed confidence that this latest ratings would further boost the critical manpower need of NAMA especially in the Area Radar Control Service.
In its determination to build critical manpower capacity in the area of operations, over 124 Air Traffic Controllers were rated in 2014 just as a batch of 40 ATCs were recently trained on performance based navigation flight procedures in Cairo, Egypt  while another batch of five were trained on wind shear equipment handling in Germany.