Stakeholders call to end 50% revenue cuts to boost Nigerian aviation development amid plans to fly first Nigerian-made helicopter

• Nigeria's aviation assemblage is growing, but it is yet to drawback up with different countries owed to a shortage of captious aviation infrastructure
• Stakeholders person identified cardinal infrastructural projects that could beryllium implemented if the national authorities halts its gross cuts
• Meanwhile, plans are successful apical cogwheel to alert the archetypal made-in-Nigeria helicopter, courtesy of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure

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An existing signifier successful Nigeria’s aviation assemblage is that the national authorities deducts 50% of gross generated by the aviation agencies.

But stakeholders person present brought nationalist attraction to the stunted improvement successful the airports owed to a deficiency of funding.

They noted that if the authorities stops the 50% gross cuts, funds volition beryllium disposable for captious infrastructure projects crossed the airports.

The national authorities accrued aviation backing successful the 2025 nationalist budget. Photo credit: Kola Sulaimon, Contributor
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Stakeholder appeals to FG to halt gross cuts

The President of the Aeronautical Information Management Association of Nigeria, Dr Ibrahim Audu, appealed to the authorities to halt the 50% deductions for a portion to let improvement travel to the airports.

Speaking astatine the 2025 World Aeronautical Information Service Day (WAISD), Audu observed that the aviation agencies are hampered by a deficiency of funds and incapable to upgrade the outdated facilities to planetary standards that volition amended the information of Nigeria’s aerial space.

Speaking connected the theme; ‘Safeguarding The Skies: The Vital Role Of Secured Aeronautical Information In Aviation Safety’, Audu highlighted the value of Aeronautical Information Services to ensuring safety, regularity, and ratio successful aerial navigation.

He stressed that if agencies similar the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) are not provided much funds to instal indispensable modernization projects similar the long-delayed AIS Automation project, the consequences could beryllium dire.

His words;

“Nigeria lags down neighbouring countries successful automation, and the system, erstwhile afloat operational, volition see geographic accusation systems, a integer NOTAM platform, and automated upwind reflection systems.”

He added that professionalism successful the aviation assemblage would besides beryllium improved arsenic the AIS automation task would heighten real-time information transportation to pilots, and amended harmless formation operations crossed Nigerian airports.

Efforts to professionalise Nigeria's aviation sector

Dr. Audu revealed that AIMAN successfully established a licensing committee chaired by Mr. Patrick Afatapa to unafraid licensing for the AIS unit and amended nonrecreational credibility successful the sector.

According to the PUNCH news, Nigeria is acceptable to big the archetypal International Federation of Aeronautical Information Management Associations league successful 2025.

Dr. Audu confirmed successful his code that the WAISD solemnisation would beryllium decentralized and observed astatine the antithetic stations.

FG increases aviation fund successful 2025

Recall that the Nigerian Federal Government gave the aviation industry an magnitude of N105.953 cardinal successful the 2025 budget submitted to the National Assembly.

The archetypal made-in-Nigeria chopper is astir acceptable for test-running. Photo credit: Contributor
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The allocation for 2025 is higher than the N63.317 cardinal wide fund for 2024, and it covers the College of Aviation, Aviation Ministry, and others.

FG soon to alert archetypal Nigerian-made helicopter

In related news, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has announced that the country’s first Indigenous helicopter is successful its last improvement stages.

The bureau is utilizing a operation of homegrown expertise and semi-knockdown (SKD) and implicit knockdown (CKD) models to refine and make helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Legit.ng reported that the maiden trial formation is expected to instrumentality spot successful the coming weeks, arsenic the ground-breaking task is adjacent completion.

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Source: Legit.ng