Capt. Musa Shuaib Nuhu, Director General Civil Aviation, DG CA, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA
As the countdown to the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents’ (LAAC) annual seminar (LAAC’s Flight) ticks on, there emerges more development about the faculty members for the cerebral talk shop coming up Thursday, 27th July 2023, at the Providence Hotel, Government Reservation Area, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.
The theme of this year’s conference is, ‘’Aviation Industry: Changing Times, Changing Strategies.’’
Among the resource persons scheduled to address the August gathering from a deep hindsight of the industry’s performance in the overall national economy, is the Director General, DG, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Capt. Musa Shuaib Nuhu who shall be setting the tone for the event with an insightful and instructive keynote address at the event.
A media statement jointly signed by Messrs Chinedu Eze, and Albinus Chiedu, Chairman and Secretary of the Planning Committee respectively, said this year’s conference was informed by emerging trends that had influenced airlines’ operations nay their management and had also impacted finance and other elements in the aviation value chain therefore, the industry deserves critical attention with the view to jointly hewn a drastic solution to the identified trend.
Some of the high-ranking dignitaries with hands on their different spheres in the aviation value chain that will make practical presentations far away from abstracts delivery or conjectures are, Barrister Allen Onyema, Sole Proprietor of Air Peace, Mr. Kabir Mohammed, Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and Engr. Tayib Odunowo, Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, (NAMA).
Among the crème de la crème of faculty members are Mr. Bernard Bankole, Group Managing Director of Finchglow Travels who is also the Chairman of the Association of Aviation Training Organizations (AATOs) in Nigeria, and Dr. Gabriel Olowo, President of Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative (ASRTI). They have been scheduled as panelists at the seminar.
The statement hinted further that the program would feature key presentations from Engr. Akin Olateru, the Director-General, Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), and Capt. Roland Iyayi, the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, TopBrass Aviation.
It added that: “Aviation and allied business organizations have taken advantage of sponsorship opportunities presented by this event to sell their products and services. This 2023 edition presents yet another opportunity”, the statement affirmed.
The media statement further said, “There will be both physical and virtual participation in the conference to enable a wider spectrum of aviators, stakeholders, and the general public from across the world, to be part of the annual no-holds-barred talk shop.
LAAC also announced that individuals and organizations in the entire gamut of the aviation value chain that have distinguished themselves in an outstanding and specific performance shall equally be honoured with Awards at the “LAAC Awards of Excellence” segment of the event.
LAAC is Nigeria’s aviation media umbrella body saddled with the responsibility of effective and efficient media coverage of events as they unfold in the air transport sector of the national economy.
The LAAC annual conference has over the years made an unquantifiable impact on Nigeria’s aviation sector by throwing up policy, management, and operational issues for public discussion. This has resulted in tremendously significant evidential changes in Nigeria’s aviation sector
**featured picture credit@Aviation & Allied Business Journal
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