A looming crisis which could have paralysed Nigeria’s aviation sector was averted on Tuesday after the joint labour unions of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) suspended a planned nationwide protest.
The protest, which was scheduled to begin on July 1st, was shelved following an emergency intervention by the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development and NiMet management.
The industrial action, organised by the NiMet Joint Action Committee (NJAC), was aimed at forcing a resolution over instability regarding staff welfare and a long-standing dispute over accumulated revenue backlogs.
At the centre of the friction is the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), which was accused of failing to remit NiMet’s legally mandated share of aviation revenues.
According to an internal union circular obtained by BusinessDay, the emergency meeting exposed gaps in how revenues are collected, shared, and remitted among the country’s critical aviation parastatals.
