The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has flagged off the implementation of the Federal Authorities’s Nationwide Youth Improvement Directive programme because it launched the Aviation Upskilling Improvement Programme (AUDP), accepted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in February 2025.
The implementation of the AUDP follows the approval by Tinubu for a nationwide construction for youth empowerment throughout Ministries and Businesses.
To key into this, the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement has directed companies beneath its purview, together with the NCAA, to align their youth-related efforts with the nationwide framework.
Talking throughout a programme on the NCAA Annexe in Lagos, its director basic, Captain Chris Najomo, mentioned over 100 youths have been chosen from communities round airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Kano to take part in multidisciplinary sectors.
Najomo mentioned the AUDP initiative will help the youths to know and navigate their means into the aviation sector.
He mentioned: “However, as a deep and agency believer in the way forward for younger Nigerians. We’re right here to introduce a modest however vital initiative: the Aviation Upskilling Improvement Programme (AUDP). However extra importantly, we’re right here to talk actually and constructively about the actual alternatives that exist in aviation and the way you, as younger graduates, can place yourselves to reap the benefits of them.
“The Aviation Upskilling Improvement Programme (AUDP) is just not an in a single day resolution. It’s a rising initiative aimed toward serving to younger Nigerians, significantly graduates, perceive and start to navigate their means into aviation.
“From documentation programs to surveillance instruments, aviation at present runs on digital abilities. Grasp instruments like Microsoft Excel, primary GIS, security reporting apps, or knowledge visualisation platforms, and have interaction companions to help skill-building initiatives. We won’t over-promise. However we are going to do our half —step-by-step—to open the area and carry younger Nigerians ahead into the aviation future.
“To each younger particular person listening to me at present: aviation is open to you, however you have to be able to be taught, to work, and to guide. The journey is probably not straightforward, however it’s price it.
“Let the Aviation Upskilling Improvement Programme be a dialog starter. Let it’s a bridge between the place you might be and the place you need to go. We look ahead to strolling that bridge with you.”
Najomo mentioned the targets are to develop abilities for key aviation roles, bridge the abilities hole, help job creation, foster worldwide collaboration, and promote sustainable aviation practices by equipping professionals with information on sustainable aviation practices, together with environmental laws, renewable power sources, and inexperienced applied sciences.
By means of this programme, Najomo mentioned the NCAA seeks to empower the subsequent era of aviation professionals by providing them the instruments and assets required to succeed. It should tackle the particular coaching wants of the aviation business and guarantee contributors acquire a robust basis within the international requirements and greatest practices that outline it at present.
The goal contributors are current graduates from tertiary establishments, undergraduates, and contemporary faculty leavers; younger professionals in search of profession transition; girls and under-represented teams in aviation; and present aviation employees looking for skilled improvement.
In her remarks, Director of Human Assets and Administration, Dr. Anastasia Gbem mentioned: “ This initiative is a vital step in direction of addressing the urgent challenges going through Nigeria’s aviation sector, together with expertise shortages, regional disparities, and gender imbalances. The AUDP is designed to empower younger Nigerians with the abilities, information, and steerage they want to reach the aviation business. Our objective is to equip the subsequent era of aviation professionals with the instruments and assets they should excel on this dynamic business.
“I’m assured that this initiative will contribute considerably to the expansion and improvement of Nigeria’s aviation business, creating job alternatives, decreasing unemployment, and enhancing our standing within the worldwide aviation group.”
Within the closing remarks, regional supervisor, South West, NCAA, Olubukola Aduragbemi Teriba mentioned: “ The NCAA is proud to host this empowerment Programme to align with the NCAA broader imaginative and prescient to construct an acceptable and globally aggressive aviation sector in Nigeria which is able to put together and equip the Nigerian youth with specialised technical information wanted to confidently step into the array of jobs obtainable inside the business thereby creating jobs alternatives, decreasing unemployment and enhancing Nigeria’s picture within the worldwide group.
“Because the regulator, NCAA is just not solely a custodian of security, safety and financial oversight, however duty-bound to make sure inclusivity, entry to alternatives and a sustainable future workforce for our business.
“As we collect right here at present, we’re reminded of the challenges confronted by Nigeria in creating jobs for teenagers and expert employees within the Aviation Sector. So, this initiative will fill within the hole to organize younger Nigerians by equipping them with technical information which is able to put together them to take up jobs obtainable within the aviation business.”
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