The News Review:
- Nigeria: A Strong And Independent Aviation Ministry
- Frontier Airlines files for bankruptcy – Aviation- msnbc.com
- Grounded flights may pull down economy – Aviation- msnbc.com
- Hafei Aviation Says Profit Rose Less Than 1% on Costs (Update1)
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- New National Aviation Training Facility
Nigeria: A Strong And Independent Aviation Ministry
AllAfrica.com – Apr 11, 2008
The reason is very simple: air safety. Though the ministry may not be directly responsible for overseeing the day-to-day safety enforcement, which is directly under the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), its supervision of the NCAA’s safety oversight functions would instill discipline on a continuum of all the agencies under the Ministry of Aviation. What we have today is a conglomerate of two large ministries (Transport and Aviation) with over lapping functions devoid of any specific responsibility and authority, since the ministers, by and large, assume different functions diluted in a matrix of responsibilities, supremacy and authority. The agencies under the obscured ministry of transport take advantage of the confusion to align with any minister, easy enough, to dispense required authority at any given time.
Frontier Airlines files for bankruptcy – Aviation- msnbc.com
MSNBC – Apr 11, 2008
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