The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) on Monday said it had sustained its collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on strategic management of the country’s airspace.
This is to enhance safety of military and civilian flyers.
The information is contained in a statement signed by the agency's General Manager, Public Relations, Mr Supo Atobatele, issued in Abuja.
The statement said that this was made known when a high-powered delegation of the Nigerian Air Force paid a courtesy visit to the Managing Director, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam.
In the statement, the leader of the delegation and Director of Air Traffic Services, Cdr. Bello Garba, said that the visit was to strengthen the existing mutual relationship between the Nigerian Air Force and NAMA.
It said that the synergy was particularly critical in view of the nation's current security challenges
The statement said that Cdr. Garba expressed appreciation of NAMA’s role in quelling the ongoing insurgency in the North-Eastern part of the country.
It solicited the agency’s assistance in the provision of technical expertise in the installation of a military radar and the needed capacity to man the equipment.
Abdulsalam said that the Nigerian Air Force had always been an ally of NAMA as the statutory role of the two organisations were complimentary.
Abdulsalam said that NAMA had always been at the forefront of the civil-military coordination meetings.
He stated that the ongoing multilateral project in the Gulf of Guinea would effectively capture low-level aircraft in the area, including military helicopters.
He promised that the agency would provide NAF with the needed manpower training and technical information on the military radar and other logistics.
According to the statement, seven representatives of NAMA, drawn from the Search and Rescue Department at the weekend in Abuja, participated in a live simulation on air crash outside the vicinity of an airport.
It said that the exercise was organised by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), adding that it took place at the National Fire Academy, Shada Abuja.
"This was to demonstrate the nation’s preparedness in responding to air crash accidents as well as rescue coordination strategies outside the confines of an aerodrome, " it said.
It said that the programme attracted representatives of other relevant agencies such as NEMA, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency (NCAA) and the Federal Roads Safety Commission.
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