Manpower shortage:NACAN seeks additional personnel for airports 

The President of the National Air Traffic Communicators Association of Nigeria (NACAN), Rabiu Mohammed Sani, has decried the shortage of manpower in comms department of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) 

Speaking on the sideline at the 11th Annual General Meeting of NACAN in Abuja, Sani lamented that the department was short staffed especially Lagos and Port Harcourt saying that about 50 more personnel were needed to man different airports across the country

According to Sani, the situation is more worrisome during Hajj operations  posing challenges in some airports

“We have to engage more staff, as we speak now, we don’t have staff in Dutse, Jalingo, Bauchi, Bernin Kebbi. Which is actually very bad. Any time we are having Hajj operations, we experience alot of challenges”

Sani, lamented that a situation where necessary facilities were not available was not good for the system adding, that the use of social media for information dissemination was unacceptable as the message ought to be kept with integrity.

On the welfare of members, Sani explained, that

NACAN has secured the employment of nine trained Comms officers after 13 years of their training at Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria whom of which were in NAMA payroll.

He noted that the past three years as the president of NACAN have been a transformative period for the association saying, that  the narratives have been changed by working together

Sani numerated some of his achievements in the past three years to include, clearing Inherited outstanding payments, backlog of branch dues, from December 2021 to December 2024, across all 26 branches nationwide, has been fully paid.

He remarked that all wrongly deducted payments from the past 11 years were rectified, benefiting individuals while

Duty Travel Allowances (DTA) for all  representatives were paid.

Sani however requested from the management of NAMA that the approval of N50,000 for English proficiency to ATC should also be extended to Aero-Comms personnel.

NACAN President noted that, Aero-Comms department in NCAT, Zaria issues the same English profiency certificate others were benefiting from despite possession of the same by its members.