According to the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, all airports operated by the federal and state governments of Nigeria have approach and landing navigational aids. It stated that satellite performance-based navigation protocols were also in place, allowing aircraft to fly into these airports at any time of day. At the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents' 26th annual conference in Lagos, the acting managing director of NAMA, Matthew Pwajok, revealed this. He argued that it was inappropriate to refer to some airports in the nation as "sunrise airports" or "sunset airports." He said that this was the case since Instrument Flight Rules were being used at practically every airport in Nigeria that has instrument landing facilities for approach and landing.
According to Pwajok, the airports did not follow Visual Flight Rules, which mandated that pilots approach and land visually between sunrise and dusk. Except for one or two private aerodromes, all federal and state airports operated by NAMA are outfitted with an instrument landing system, according to the NAMA director. The runway and approach lights may be momentarily out of commission or temporarily unavailable, but even then, those airports cannot be referred to as dawn or sunset airports. "Almost all airports in Nigeria have a least of CAT II ILS, the majority of which were installed brand-new, with the exception of Owerri and Calabar, where the agency is working to install Category II Instrument Landing Systems, and Jalingo, which has no ILS for the time being. Therefore, outmoded navigational facilities do not exist.
Pwajok noted that the agency began implementing Category III ILS in Abuja and Lagos airports in an effort to address visibility concerns in some airports during inclement weather, while those in Katsina, Kano, and Port Harcourt were being constructed and would be completed before the end of 2022.
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