{"id":249707,"date":"2026-11-10T19:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-air-traffic-controllers-threaten-strike-over-failing-equipment\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:30:31","slug":"nigerian-air-traffic-controllers-threaten-strike-over-failing-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-air-traffic-controllers-threaten-strike-over-failing-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Threaten Strike Over Failing Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The association&#8217;s national president, Edino Amos, said 2026 has been particularly challenging for air traffic controllers, with little improvement in the systems they rely on to manage the country&#8217;s airspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nigerian air traffic controllers have threatened a strike over deteriorating communication and surveillance infrastructure, warning that continued use of inadequate equipment is straining aviation safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NATCA\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Air Traffic Controllers Association<\/a><\/strong> (NATCA) said the Federal Government is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611100612.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The association&#8217;s national president, Edino Amos, said 2026 has been particularly challenging for air traffic controllers, with little improvement in the systems they rely on to manage the country&#8217;s airspace. Nigerian air traffic controllers have threatened a strike over deteriorating communication and surveillance infrastructure, warning that continued use of inadequate equipment is straining aviation safety. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7832,43479,12534,21944,257,393,482,254,2080,7002,9527],"class_list":["post-249707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-controllers","tag-equipment","tag-failing","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-threaten","tag-traffic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}