President Bola Tinubu has hailed Nigeria’s spectacular 91.45 per cent aviation security ranking from the Worldwide Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
Tinubu, in a launch issued on Thursday by his Adviser on Data and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, recommended Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement for the feat.
He acknowledged that the ranking affirmed Nigeria’s aviation security requirements and made it a extra engaging vacation spot for funding in aviation infrastructure, upkeep amenities, and airline operations.
Tinubu urged the ministry to not relent however to overview and implement each suggestion that the ICAO auditors made through the mission to make sure that Nigeria not solely maintained, however went even additional on the ranking.
ICAO is a United Nations company that coordinates the ideas and strategies of worldwide air navigation. It fosters the planning and improvement of worldwide air transport to make sure secure and orderly development.
By way of the Common Security Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP), ICAO assesses nations to make sure they handle security dangers successfully, guaranteeing that no nation is left behind and instantly influencing worldwide confidence in that nation’s airspace.
Nigeria, as an ICAO member state, is obligated to adjust to relevant worldwide requirements and to determine and implement these safety-critical oversight components. Because the inception of the Common Security Oversight Audit Programme in 1999, Nigeria has undergone 4 USOAP security audits performed by ICAO auditors, with outcomes measured via Efficient Implementation (E.I.) scores.
Throughout a latest debriefing by the ICAO audit crew on the Abuja headquarters of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the lead auditor introduced that Nigeria had recorded a powerful 91.45% Efficient Implementation (EI) rating – the very best ever for Nigeria.
The regional common for West Africa is 61.1 per cent, and the worldwide common is 70.4 per cent. Nigeria is, thus, properly positioned above the regional and world scores, which, in flip, considerably boosts investor confidence and strengthens worldwide aviation credibility.
Upon assumption of workplace, Tinubu redefined the precedence areas of his administration to incorporate enhancing infrastructure and transportation as enablers of development. He additionally promised to determine the air transport sector as a serious driver for {economic} prosperity by constructing a secure, safe, and environment friendly aviation business centered on making Nigeria a hub that met worldwide requirements and greatest practices past even the African continent.
To align with that precedence space, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement, Festus Keyamo (SAN), outlined a five-point agenda to develop the Nigerian aviation worth chain.
Importantly, the primary level on that agenda was to make sure strict compliance with security laws and the continual upward motion of Nigeria’s ICAO ranking.
Deji Elumoye
Times Nigeria