The International Organisation for standardization (ISO) has approved the elevation of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to its certification category of ISO 9001:2015.
Spokesman for NAMA, Mr Abdullahi Musa, disclosed this in a statement.
He said agency attained the certification after undergoing a strenuous certification audit by representatives of ISO and coming out successful based on the listed clauses.
“The certification audit took representatives of ISO to the five international airports (Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu), aeronautical information services (AIS) as well as charts and aeronautical publications. Also audited were personnel competencies, required working tools, office environment and documentations,” he said.
“As a mandatory requirement of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS), the attainment of the ISO certification is yet another landmark achievement by NAMA in its quest to continue to raise the bar in air navigation service provision,” the statement quoted the managing director of NAMA, Mr Ahmed Farouk as saying.
He expressed confidence that the ISO certification would further enhance customer satisfaction as NAMA products and services would be timely, reliable and have less error rate.
“For us in NAMA, this certification is a renewed assurance to airlines and other stakeholders that we are poised for excellence as we work assiduously towards enhancing the safety and reliability of the Nigerian airspace,” he added.
