We are hearing very faintly that the minister of state (Air Transport) is proposing an aviation development roadmap. This fundamental and rudimentary necessity can not come at a better time than now, if this is true, especially, with the system grossly mismanaged and interagency relations in divergent directions.
The establishment of the defunct West African Airways Corporation (WAAC) in 1948, of which Nigeria was an active participant was the initial roadmap of aviation development in West African sub region. With the break up of WAAC, and the subsequent establishment of Nigerian Airways in 1958, which further gave birth to the civil aviation act of 1964 and the commencement order of 1966, the first truly enacted roadmap of civil aviation development with air safety policies settled in Nigeria. The fledgling airlines, Nigerian Airways and Aero Contractors, operated with the scanty air regulation guidelines dubbed from the British Civil Aviation Authority.
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