The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)
Vision
To be one of the leading Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) in the world.
Mission
To provide safe, efficient, effective, and economic Air Navigation Services to airspace users, through the deployment of new technologies and a dedicated workforce.
Functions of the Agency
(1) The Agency shall-
(a) provide air traffic services in Nigeria, including air traffic control, visual and non-visual aids, aeronautical telecommunication services and electricity supplies relating thereto, to enable public transport, private, business and military aircraft fly, as far as practicable and as safely as possible;
(b) provide aerodromes at all the major Nigerian airports, the navigation services necessary for the operation of aircraft taking-off and landing and integrate them into the overall of air traffic within the Nigerian airspace;
(c) minimize or prevent interference with the use or effectiveness of all apparatus used in connection with air navigation and for prohibiting or regulating the use of all such apparatus and display of signs and lights liable to endanger aircraft and endanger the use of Nigerian airspace;
(d) generally secure the safety, efficiency and regularity of air navigation;
(e) require persons engaged in or employed in or in connection with air navigation, to supply meteorological information for the purpose of air navigation, as may be deemed appropriate from time to time;
(f) provide adequate facilities and personnel for effective security of navigational aids outside the airport perimeters;
(g) create conditions for the development, in the most efficient and economic manner, of air transport services;
(h) procure, install and maintain adequate communication, navigation and surveillance and air traffic management facilities at all airports in Nigeria.
(i) ensure an effective co-ordination in the use of Nigerian airspace in line with established standards and procedures;
(j) ensure the co-ordination at all levels of decisions relating to airspace management and air traffic control in Nigeria;
(k) hold meetings with the armed forces on Nigeria’s international obligations as they relate to civil and military co-ordination;
(l) promote familiarisation visits by civil and military personnel to air traffic service units;
(m) maintain permanent liaison with the civil air traffic services units and all relevant air defence units, in order to ensure the daily integration or segregation of civil and military air traffic operating within the same or immediately adjacent portions of the Nigerian airspace, employing civil or military radars as necessary;
(n) obviate the need for civil aircraft to obtain special air defence clearance;
(o) take necessary steps to prevent, as far as possible, penetration of control airspace by any aircraft, civil or military without co-ordination with the air traffic control unit concerned;
(p) encourage research and development relating to all aspects of the Nigerian airspace designed to improve air safety;
(q) undertake systems engineering development and implementation for communications, navigation and surveillance and air traffic management;
(r) charge for services provided by the Agency;
(s) co-ordinate the implementation of search and rescue services; and
(t) discharge the operational, technical and financial air traffic service commitments arising from Nigeria’s membership of international organization and other air navigation agencies.
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