NiMet Reassures Stakeholders On Superior Meteorological Services Delivery
By Stella Enenche, Abuja
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet)has reassured stakeholders of its commitment to deliver high-quality meteorological services that would meet specific needs of the sector.
NiMet’s Director General, Professor, Charles Anosike, made this known on Tuesday at the
Aviation stakeholders Quality Management System (QMS)meeting in Abuja.
While welcoming the participants, Anosike who was represented by his Special Assistant, Mr. Asaniyan Taiwo, hinted on the ongoing modernization of NiMet infrastructure and investment in state-of-the-art equipment and technology aimed at improving weather observation, forecasting, and dissemination capabilities.
He also highlighted the ongoing capacity building of staff through training and retraining.
“For effective and improved service delivery, MOUs have been signed with local and international partners to deliver more resilient and customer-centric NiMet products and services for a sustainable aviation sector and safety of air navigation in Nigeria”, Prof. Anosike concluded.
NiMet’s Head of Quality Management System (QMS) Usman Abdulrahman,who listed the discussions for the the meeting said,”There is need for airline pilots to attend briefing in the flight crew briefing rooms (FCBR) to plan their flights, training of airlines dispatch officers on basic meteorology course to improve and strengthen their roles in flight planning and dispatch, introduction of robust weather application to improve access to weather information and retrieval of aviation products and services, and finally the need to procure the aviation terminal information system (ATIS) to reduce the workload of the air traffic control (ATC).”
Other participants at the meeting were drawn from the following agencies; Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Federal Airports Authority (FAAN), Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nigerian Safety and Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian Airforce (NAF) and Green Africa Airlines.
