NiMet Assures Of Quality Service At Abuja Airport

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has assured stakeholders of quality service delivery at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The chief executive officer of NiMet, Professor Charles Anosike, who stated this after his meeting with the aviation stakeholders at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja where the Quality Management System (QMS) was concluded, assured them of NiMet’s commitment to delivering high-quality meteorological services that meet the specific needs of the sector.

The meeting  drew participants from the following agencies; 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.

While welcoming the participants, Prof. Anosike who was represented by his special assistant, Mr. Asaniyan Taiwo, spoke about the ongoing modernization 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.

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According to him, “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”.

Also speaking, the head of Quality Management System (QMS) at NiMet, Usman Abdulrahman 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).”