BY OLAPEJU OLUBI
Aviation stakeholders at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja have wrapped up their Quality Management System (QMS) meeting with strategic outcomes placed on the front burner.
At the event, the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Professor Charles Anosike, reassured attendees of NiMet’s commitment to providing high-quality meteorological services tailored to the unique demands of the aviation sector.
The meeting, which was held on Monday, 21st October 2024, at the Hajj Centre, Domestic Airport Private Wing of the airport, drew participants from Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Federal Airports Authority (FAAN), Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nigerian Safety and Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian Airforce (NAF) and Green Africa Airlines.
While welcoming the participants,
Professor Anosike who was represented by his Special Assistant, Mr. Asaniyan Taiwo, spoke about the ongoing modernisation of NiMet infrastructure and investment in state-of-the-art equipment and technology to improve weather observation, forecasting, and dissemination capabilities.
He also highlighted the ongoing capacity building of staff through training and retraining. “For effective and improved service delivery, MOUs have been signed with local and international partners to deliver more resilient and customer-centric NiMet products and services for a sustainable aviation sector and safety of air navigation in Nigeria”, Prof. Anosike added.
Also speaking, the Head of Quality Management System (QMS) at NiMet, Usman Abdulrahman, listed the discussions to include the need for airline pilots to attend briefing in the flight crew briefing rooms (FCBR) to plan their flights, training of airlines dispatch officers on basic meteorology course to improve and strengthen their roles in flight planning and dispatch, introduction of robust weather application to improve access to weather information and retrieval of aviation products and services, and finally the need to procure the aviation terminal information system (ATIS) to reduce the workload of the air traffic control (ATC).
