According to NGTrentds report, there will be no flight operations in all the airports across the country as all terminals will be shut.
The two leading unions in the aviation sector threatened on Thursday, October 22, that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) will be shutdown at Sunday midnight to halt the operations scheduled for Monday, October 26.
The action is owing to certain defaults on the part of the NCAA in line with the condition of service in the industry.
The unions were said to have in a letter dated Wednesday, October 21, 2015 to their members accused NCAA of not adhering to the condition of service with respect to promotion of workers and other welfare issues.
The secretaries general of NUATE and NAAPE, Comrades Olayinka Abioye and Aba Ocheme respectively, who jointly signed the letter threatened to shut down the agency from midnight Sunday till further notice.
They stressed that there was the need to safeguard the integrity of NCAA’s condition of service hence, the withdrawal of service by the workers
The unions stated that the action of the director general of NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman, breached section 3.4 of conditions of service.
It added that all efforts to discuss with the management had proved.
Part of the letter read: “By the copy of this notice, the general public is hereby informed of this development and the implications that all safety regulations activities of the NCAA will be unavailable from that time and date. The above notice will remain in force until otherwise directed by the secretariat of our unions.”
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