NiMet gives assurance as Abuja Airport stakeholders conclude QMS meeting

Sade Williams/Business a.m.

Aviation stakeholders at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja have concluded their Quality Management System (QMS) meeting with the director general and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Charles Anosike, a professor, assuring them of NiMet’s commitment to delivering high-quality meteorological services that meet the specific needs of the sector.

The meeting drew participants from agencies including 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.

Anosike, who was represented by Asaniyan Taiwo, his special assistant, while welcoming participants, 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,” Anosike concluded.

Usman Abdulrahman, the head of quality management system (QMS) at NiMet, listed the discussions at the meeting as follows: 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).