Nigeria's Aviation Industry: A Plea for Reform and Accountability

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This article highlights the urgent need for reform and accountability within Nigeria's aviation industry. It criticizes the current Minister of Aviation for failing to address administrative errors and ensure safety standards, drawing parallels to the industry's past struggles with safety concerns and the devastating Sosoliso plane crash.

The urgent need to save NCAA and the entire aviation sector should not be overlooked as the survival of the sector depends solely on the ability to correct administrative errors and forge a common front against anything that could frustrate safety and excellent leadership. One wonders why the Minister of Aviation who knows the law is not applying it appropriately. It is expected of him to take action and not to continue to ignore the current situation.

He should be reminded of the legal frameworks and standards of public office and ensure the needful is done, else he takes the bulk of the blame if the industry continues on this trajectory. Nigeria’s aviation industry was once plagued by safety concerns, earning it a reputation as fragile and accident-prone. The Sosoliso plane crash, which claimed 110 lives, was a devastating example of that era. Safety concerns in the sector had as at then pushed many people to go the way of the “lesser evil” by preferring to travel on the road as against flying to their various points of destination.Apart from the Sosoliso plane crash, many air crashes involving top government officials were equally recorded. But it was not long before the then government introduced an effective reform that transformed the industry into a world class secto

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