The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) commenced the year 2023 with interdenominational prayer, calling on God to make the year accident free which the industry has enjoyed over the last decade.

The prayer held at the NCAA Aviation House in Lagos had in attendance senior staff rof the aviation regulatory agency.

Muslim and Christian prayers were held to beseech the Almighty God to assist the NCAA in fulfilling its vision and mission. 

Prayers were specifically held to help the management to effectively implement the new Civil Aviation Act (CAA) which was recently assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari. 

The CAA 2022 repealed the 2006 CAA and captured several developments that had taken place in international civil aviation in the last 16 years.

It has changed the nomenclature of NCAA to Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) without an ‘A’ in Nigeria and also the Director-General is now addressed as DG, Civil Aviation. 

The DG, CA, Capt. Musa Nuhu who joined the staff virtually implored the staff to continue to be dedicated and committed to duty in the task of facing the challenges ahead.

He expressed optimism that having survived the challenging 2022, the year 2023 would be better.

Addressing the workers, some of the authority’s labour leaders urged the DG of NCAA to implement a mandatory health management scheme, promotion for staff that have gone on training.

The union leaders said they have engaged the management and have
strategised on how every staff will be promoted, adding that the Civil Aviation Act has been passed, given the DG more powers to get more people promoted this year .

They enjoined the staff to
Work towards improving NCAA’s revenue,
refurbish the working equipment like vehicles, AC, photocopy machines, laptops etc.