Aviation agencies hold national prayer for air safety

Leaders of aviation agencies yesterday organised “National Aviation Prayers“ in Lagos to seek divine intervention on safety and other issues in the Aviation sector.
The national prayers was held at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja.
It was the first time agencies in sector gathered to seek divine solutions to the myriad of challenges facing the sector.
Muslim and Christian personnel in the sector attended the prayers to seek God help to turn around the fortunes of the sector.
It was organised by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB).
Setting the tone for the prayer session, NAMA’s Managing Director Nnamdi Udoh said the agencies deemed it necessary to seek divine help in the affairs of the sector to get better results.
Udoh said the national prayers would transform affairs of the sector this year.
NCAA’s Director-General Captain Fola Akinkuotu took the Bible reading from Psalms 103: 1- 22.
In his message, titled: When God’s People Pray, the guest pastor, Rev. Kalu Ukpai of The Presbyterian Church, Ojodu, said the aviation industry would experience great changes, if the players in the sector sought God’s help through prayers.
Ukpai urged the players in the sector to pray throughout the season to enable God turn things around.
He said Nigeria’s problem was traceable to the failure of leadership, as encapsulated by the pamphlet written by the late literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe.
He said: ”When God’s people pray, errors in the system will be corrected. If Nigerians pray, heaven will cancel all evil plans.
“Fervent prayers will change the future of Nigeria.”
Culled from The Nation