The joint unions of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (Nimet) are set to paralyse aviation activities on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 following the failure of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to comply to a ministerial directive on 10 per cent remittance.
The unions under the auspices of Nimet Unions Joint Action Committee (NJAC), in a letter dated June 26, 2026, signed by the Secretaries of AUPCTRE, ANAP and SSASCGOC, Hishaq Ibrahim, Okerafor Romeo and Ogidi John, respectively, with the reference number: JAC/015/AUPCTRE/ANAP/SSASCGOC and copied the Minister of Aviation and the Director-General, Nimet and obtained by The Guardian, accused the management of NAMA of disobeying the Minister of Aviation and Airspace Development, Festus Keyamo’s directive.
According to the unions, the minister had intervened to proffer lasting solution due to the persistent failure of NAMA to remit 10 per cent of en-route and over-flying charges to Nimet.

The joint unions, however, regretted that despite the minister’s intervention, which directed NAMA’s management to pay the sum within 48 hours, the management was yet to do so.
The unions claimed that the deliberate act by NAMA had paralysed the operational activities within the aerodrome and staff welfare of Nimet.

To this end, the unions in their meeting held on June 15, 2026, said it reached resolutions to inform the minister of NAMA’s failure to comply to the directive and that within the period of a week, if nothing was done, Nimet staff would proceed on a nationwide strike to press home their demand.

The letter added: “In view of the above resolution, the NJAC in a session hereby inform all our members of the planned protest scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 1st July, 2026 at all Nimet offices nationwide.”