A foremost non-governmental corporate organisation in Nigeria’s aviation sector, the Nigeria Aviation Awards (NIGAV), has made history by receiving over 1,400 votes from the public through an online survey-based mechanism conducted at its 12th edition of the annual events for various award categories to authenticate its 2022 award process.
Addressing some aviation journalists at the NIGAV Centre at the international wing of the Lagos airport, the chairman of NIGAV, Mr Fortune Idu, commended the role of the media in the developmental growth of the sector even as he expressed delight at the response of the public towards nominating recipients for the various awards through the questionnaires sent out.
The response from the public, according to him, was used to determine the winners of each category.
While maintaining the position of NIGAV as a very strong advocate and promoter of industry development, Idu said the corporate body, in the past 12 years of its existence, had bestowed over 100 prestigious awards on different categories of individuals and organisations.
The awards, he said, have reawakened the commitment of the various professionals including airport managers who now struggle to show more loyalty and patriotism in the course of their jobs with the hope of being rewarded through such awards from NIGAV.
“We can boldly say that we have, through this process, improved airport managers’ zeal to perform and have also through our advocacy encouraged higher level management autonomy of airports around the country to help improve quality of airport services.
“We visited no fewer than five airports to ascertain their level of preparedness for passengers, their interactions, their facilities and how efficient they are. Now, even airport managers call us to come and see what they are doing. Same for airlines; we send them memos to find out how easy their refund processes are, how they deal with customer complaints and so on and we have had some pretty interesting responses,” he said.
Idu used the opportunity to unveil the theme for the 2023 award and ministerial gala dinner slated for February 2023 with the theme, ‘The coming of a New Era,’ and the former managing director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Richard Aisuebeogun, as the chairman of the NIGAV development promotion committee.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the chairman, House Committee on Aviation, Nnaji Nnolim, would confer the different awards on the recipients.
The 2023 awards would feature the crowning of the King and Queen of the Air meant to closely examine the functions of cabin crew on inflight passenger experience, attracting a cash reward of N1 million as well as charity donations to the Save our Souls (SOS) Children Village.
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