The Federal Government has rescinded its decision to ground 60 private jets owned by various individuals in Nigeria over unpaid import duty running into several billions of naira. The PUNCH reported on Monday that the government through a directive from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to the Nigeria Airspace Management Authority (NAMA) was expected to have grounded the defaulting jets. …

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ekiti State government to pave the way for a seamless takeoff of the newly established Ekiti State Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport at Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. The MoU, which was signed at the agency’s headquarters annex at the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA) in Lagos, attracted …

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, on Monday, suspended its proposed increment of en-route navigation charges. Last week, NAMA said it was proposing the increase of en-route navigation charges from N2,000 and N6,000 to N18,000 and N54,000 per flight. However, the agency, in response to the directive from Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, has put the decision …

The Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Farouk Ahmed Umar, has appealed to the Federal Government to allow the agency more access to Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) so as to enhance its operations. Umar, who spoke at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, said NAMA, as the heart of the aviation industry is tasked with the critical responsibility of …

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has said the ban on flights between Nigeria and Niger Republic subsists, saying only the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, could lift it. NAMA stated that if authorised, over-flight aircraft passing through Niger airspace, aircraft in a state of emergency and special flights were exempted from the flight ban. A …