NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) have recently spoken about the financial constraints they are currently facing as it’s continues to run at a loss with over 40% revenue losses in just about 12 months due to COVID-19, and a 100% increased payment to the consolidated account

Captain Nuhu Musa Director General NCAA, made this known at the regional Headquarter of the regulatory body where he hosted the senate committee on Aviation. He also explained the agency commitment on better service delivery and huge regionalization drive. Stating how Lagos still remains the center of activities for aviation in the country.



He laid emphasizes on how inflation in the country had affected the industry and how COVID 19 seems to have crash any hope of improving the industry’s contribution to the GDP.

Nuhu said, “One of our main challenges of the COVID-19 is the loss of revenue, from December 2019 to November 2020, we’ve had about approximately 40% drop in revenue because flights were not coming in which is a significant part of our income as the 5% Ticket Sales and Cargo Sales Charges. Out of this revenue we are required to pay 25% to the consolidated account which now we have been told is 50%.

“We are not doing cost recovery; we are actually operating at a loss. Let me give you an example, in Nigeria to get is an Air Operating Certificate (AOC) which is a licensing for running airline is N200, 000 that is $500 but in Gambia it is $200,000 when we charge $500 dollars. It cannot pay the cost of my inspectors to buy tickets and go for training.”

“So we are in a very tight situation and tight corner and things are not easy. We need help from the national assembly, we are doing our best but the numbers don’t add up. “

Captain Nuhu also pushed for the creation of more regional office across the nation explaining that this would not alone save airlines and times but would be cost effective and provide equal services everywhere across the country.

“Aviation activities in each regional office, we will carry the number of staff and the kind of tools and equipment they will need and the whole idea is so that each regional office has adequate staffing requirement, adequate tools; adequate offices, and everything to effectively and efficiently and comfortably deal with all field activities which includes mostly surveillance and enforcement.


“So obviously by that formula Lagos is the main hub in Nigeria and certainly Lagos will take a significant percentage, over 50% of the resources, I’m saying that but the committee will come up with it but the point Lagos will take the significant part of the resources because this is where the hub of the aviation industry is. So when we say we are moving to Abuja, it’s not like we are carrying everybody to Abuja.”


“And with the increasing developments of airports round the country, when the new airlines start coming the committee is also looking at the possibility of establishing additional regional offices to ensure that we cover the whole country, effectively and efficiently and maintain the same level of standard all over the country, we have our offices close to those airports so we’d have significant surveillance and oversight on those airports.”

“We want to decentralize certain functions and certain authorizations to regional offices so you don’t have to go to the main headquarters for everything, up to certain level you’d get some good services in the regional offices that would reduce the cost but for the airlines and reduce the inconvenience of having to go to Lagos or Abuja and also for us its easier when we have regional offices,. The inspectors for us can go and do their jobs instead of paying air fare from Lagos to Abuja and different corners of the country. In addition to better surveillance at the long run, it is more cost effective for us.”

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Source: https://tourtelegraph.com/aviation/we-are-losing-money-nigeria-civil-aviation-authority-ncaa-cries-out/