THE Nigerian Air Traffic
Controllers’ Association
(NATCA) has threatened
to withdraw their services
over the inability of the airlines to
pay the huge debts they are owing
aviation agencies in the country.
NATCA thereby called on the
federal government and well
meaning Nigerians to prevail on all
domestic airlines to remit their
outstanding Ticket and Cargo
Sales Charges (TSC) to aviation agencies without further delay to
enable them meet their obligations.
e Association in a statement
signed by Victor Eyaru and Banji
Olawole president and general secretary
respectively noted that indebtedness
by domestic airlines to
various aviation agencies have
crippled funding of their facilities
and operations in a bid to ensure
continuous air safety.
While expressing deep concern
over the looming danger to air
safety, in the country as a result of non remittance of TSC running
into several billions of naira collected
on behalf of aviation agencies
which include, the Nigerian
Airspace Management
Agency(NAMA), Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority (NCAA),Nigerian
Meteorological Agency
(NIMET) and and the Nigerian
College of Aviation Technology
(NCAT) by domestic airlines,
NATCA said these organizations
required huge funds to procure,
maintain, train their manpower
and to be able to discharge their functions reliably well.
e Association emphasised in
the statement that, “it is therefore
imperative that non remittance of
this fund by domestic airlines
would jeopardize the ability of the
agencies to Fnance their safety
critical functions. is is unsafe to
air navigation within the Nigerian
airspace and calls for serious actions”
NATCA vowed to support any
legitimate means adopted to ensure
remittance of the outstanding
charges and prompt
remittance of subsequent collec tions, adding that air safety cannot
be toyed with stressing that anything
done to achieve this on daily
basis was highly desirable.
“Failure to remit these monies is
depriving the agencies their major
source of funding and a direct disaster.
Now is the time to act”, It
said.
ey declared that NATCA as a
major stakeholder in the provision
of safety services in the aviation
industry will not hesitate to withdraw
the service of its members to
any defaulting and non cooperating
airlines.
Enterprise Bank tops web jurist’s aesthetics category
Enterprise Bank’s website
has been named the best in
aesthetics use of graphics and
good design principles in the
2013 edition of the Web-Jurist
Awards Version 11.00
conducted by Phillips Consulting.
e bank, which was also a
runner-up for the overall
‘Website Effectiveness Award’
for 2013 topped the aesthetic
category ahead of 23 banks in
Nigeria, having recently redesigned
its website as part of
the re-engineering and repositioning
efforts currently going
on in the bank.
Commenting on the Fndings
of Phillips Consulting in its
annual survey, it’s Chief Exec utive Officer, Mr. Folusho
Philips, said the websites of
Nigerian banks can match
those of any top contenders in
banking worldwide.
He noted that Nigerian
banks have developed and are
constantly moving with trends
to ensure a superb customer
experience and protection in
their websites.
According to him, “e primary
objective of the ratings is
to evaluate the effectiveness of
websites, focusing on the F-
nancial, insurance and
telecommunications industries,
giving consideration to
beneFts that customers value
in an effective website