Nigeria's revised National Civil Aviation Policy unveiled

May 16, 2013

Princess Stella Oduah, the Nigerian Minister of Civil Aviation, has officially unveiled Nigeria's revised dossier on aviation - "the Revised National Civil Aviation Policy 2013" (NCAP).

The African Aviation Tribune has quoted Oduah as saying that Nigeria's first new policy in 12 years covers safety programmes, accident investigation and prevention, the monitoring and control of general aviation, the introduction of an effective search and rescue mechanism, as well as the development of an effective and sustainable economic regulatory framework.

According to The African Aviation Tribune, the revised NCAP 2013 "will be reviewed every five years or when necessary" and is geared toward restoring sanity in the sector and bringing operations of both scheduled and non-scheduled flight operations to international standard and best practice.

The minister told The African Aviation Tribune that in the revised policy, the main agenda set out by government was to develop broader strategic plan to build a stronger, dynamic, private-sector led and liberalised industry that will meet present and future challenges. She also told the newswire that the agenda set out to restructure the aviation sector to enable it to drive economic growth in Nigeria and for it to also remain globally competitive,

The Minister also said that all foreign-registered private jets will only be able to stay in the country for a maximum of 15 days, while foreign-registered jets on special mission would only be allowed to stay for 60 days, following special approval from the office of the minister, according to The African Aviation Tribune.

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