The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority-NCAA has assured a safe and secured airspace with the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria, by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA.
The Acting Director General of NCAA, Captain Chris Najomo gave the assurance in a statement over allegations that Nigerian airspace was insecure due to lack of radar coverage.
Captain Najomo pointed out that NCAA had investigated two recent violations of the prohibited flight zones in Abuja and established that both violations comprised of controlled flights in a controlled airspace, but strayed into restricted airspace due to adverse weather.
He explained that NCAA has also confirmed that NAMA had complete radar footage of the two violations with full details of the identities of the aircraft and operators involved.
Captain Najomo stated that such details were possible because of the functional Primary and Secondary Surveillance Radars in Abuja, stressing that similar installations were in Lagos, Kano, and Port-Harcourt.
He emphasized that the Nigeria’s Radar coverage was backed up with five additional MSSR stations at Obubbra, Ilorin, Talata Mafara, Maiduguri, and Numan to augment the four existing Radar centers to achieve total coverage of the country.
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