President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Managing Director of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Kabir Yusuf Mohammed, and heads of four other agencies in the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development.
Others are the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mr. Tayib Adetunji Odunowo, the Director-General of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Akinola Olateru, the Director-General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Prof. Mansur Bako Matazu and the Rector of Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Capt. Alkali Mahmud Modibbo.
The Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Shuaibu Nuhu, was suspended to enable the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of the agency under his watch.