Nigeria's airspace now with enhanced surveillance

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has says with its enhanced safety surveillance, the Nigerian airspace is safer now.

Chris Najomo, the acting director-general, NCAA, gave the assurance during the staff annual New Year prayers held at the authority’s corporate headquarters in Abuja.

This year’s event also marked the kick-start of a series of activities to make NCAA at 25th anniversary.

Speaking on the sidelines of the programme, Najomo said the authority has enhanced safety surveillance which has made airspace safer.

“Let me be honest with you, what the president has done with his Renewed Hope agenda has ensured that our minister, with his five-point agenda, has given us the opportunity to perform more. We are going to continue performing more. Our directors are on ground.

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“Anything that will ensure that every airline complies, we will do. You can see recently we had to sanction some airlines and they accepted their sanctions”, he further stated.

“We sanctioned five airlines because they refused to pay refund tickets and they have agreed that they will pay on time. So, you know, this year, 2025, we hope to see more and better” he assured.

Najomo also said he would be focusing on delivering his core job functions and meeting his performance targets, and therefore, would not be distracted by ‘sponsored fabricated fake stories’ to attack him.

“The attacks are not affecting my work. There are no distractions because I’m resolute in doing what I’m supposed to do. My confirmation is in the hands of Mr. President. And when it comes to the time, he will do what is needed. For now, it’s not distracting me. I’m doing my job” he stated.

“We will be fully digitalised. We also have the flight data centre that is there. We have the CPD portal. We have the DATR portal to make it easier to do business and seamless too” he said among other digital solutions the authority has deployed.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.