Economic activities in the ancient city of Benin, the Edo State capital have received a boost following the commissioning of the recently installed Category II Instrument Landing System (ILS) at the Benin airport by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).
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Making this revelation at a town hall meeting with staff at the agency in Lagos, the Managing Director of NAMA, Captain Fola Akinkuotu said this was in line with an earlier pledge by the agency to upgrade navigational infrastructure in strategic airports across the country in a bid to boost socio-economic activities in such areas.
Akinkuotu also announced that the agency had equally installed and commissioned another ILS at Port Harcourt airport which was damaged by an aircraft last year, saying that the flight commissioning which was handled by Omni-Blue Aviation Ltd, indicated that the newly installed landing aids were operating at optimal capacity.
He also hinted that in the same vein, installation of CAT II ILS would commence at Maiduguri, Jos and Minna airports in the northern parts of the country.
Akinkuotu informed the staff that in line with the management’s objective to maintain a healthy and productive workforce, the agency had concluded plans to enroll NAMA into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the next two months just as he assured them that the contentious issue of review of Condition of Service (COS) was being handled and would soon be concluded by government.