Following the approval by the minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo for the kick off of a review process of the airport development structure in Nigeria, the MUNICH International has been invited in partnership with its Nigeria counterpart, F.C.I International to embark on a technical workshop that will lay the foundation for Nigerias’ Airports to begin implementing the masterplan.
As part of the process, Keyamo in keynote presentation at the opening of the workshop through the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Emmanuel Meribole, said it will be mandatory for Nigerian airports to implement the masterplan while adherence to the masterplan will be monitored by the CAA.
The workshop is coming at a time the CAA is equally embarking on aviation development Master planning for the industry that will set standard parameters for aviation to thrive in Nigeria.
According to the coordinator of the programme, Mr Fortune Idu, Chairman of Airport Business Summit and MD of F.C.I International, the programme is an Airport Masterplan fact-finding technical workshop, aimed at guiding the Ministry’s technical team and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in the acquisition, procurement, and implementation of the master planning process.
The workshop was led by Bünck Olaf, Senior Consultant Masterplan Programme at Munich Airport International in Germany. He has headed the supervision of over 13 global airport masterplan processes.
The workshop aims to increase awareness of the relevance, application, and implementation process of airport master planning and prepare a well-informed group that will eventually become full custodians of the master plan when it is developed. This report will support and help guide the upcoming master planning process.
In his opening remarks, the Acting Director General of Nigeria’s CAA, Captain Chris Najomo, said the Masterplan process both embarked on at the Ministry level, CAA and FAAN simultaneously, showed the administration’s commitment to entrenching an enduring aviation development process as part of the renewed hope agenda of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu govwrnment and enshrined in the mandate of the Minister.
Captain Najomo charged all the participants to be fully involved in this process to make aviation development more sustainable and safer for all.
Those who attended the workshop were representatives of the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace, FAAN, all the aviation agencies, and Some Nigerian state airports.
