Nnamdi Udoh
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Elder Mazi Nnamdi Udoh MSc
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 (born 8 May 1960) is the Chief Executive officer/Managing Director at the Nigerian airspace management agency.

Early life and career

Elder Mazi Nnamdi Udoh (Ugwu Aro) was born to late Senator Henry Nwafor Udoh and Madam Uzoma Udoh. He joined NAMA in the year 1980 after completing a course at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology
Nigerian College of Aviation Technology
The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology is a higher education institute in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.It is funded by the Civil Aviation Department in the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation....

 Zaria
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 where he was president of the Student Union and was the brain behind the first ever Aviation and Technical institution games hosted at Zaria in 1980. He furthered his education by obtaining an Air Traffic Safety Electronics License at the School of Aviation in Langen, Germany. He also attended City University of London where he studied Air Safety, obtaining a Masters of Science degree in 2006.

Mazi Nnamdi Udoh was appointed to the position on 05 october 2011. Prior to that, he held numerous posts as Executive director electronic and engineering services,[General Manager] of project and surveillance, special advisor on projects monitoring to the minister of Aviation after serving as Airspace manager to Ilorin international airport etc. His name is commonly used in conjunction with the multi-billion naira Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria project (TRACON) which delivers modern Air Traffic Systems at all Nigerian airports nationwide. He is also famous with the saying "NO MONEY NO SAFETY".

On 18 October 2010, he was the Acting Managing Director of NAMA during the commissioning of the TOTAL RADAR COVERAGE OF NIGERIA 'TRACON' by the President of Nigeria Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. He was highly praised by the president and his colleagues for finally attaining such success in the aviation industry. He is a bonafide member of Royal Aeronautical Society
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 (MRAeS), National Association of Air Traffic Engineers, International Federation of Air Traffic Safety Electronic Association IFATSEA United kingdom registered engineer among the few from Nigeria, just to name a few. He has held the position of general secretary at NAAE for eight years and later became the president for another four years, (?) regional director IFATSEA. He was also the first male Nigerian member of Women in Aviation International (WAI) featured on the first edition of Woman Aviator, the official publication of Women in Aviation, Nigeria.

Personal life

He is the President General Nzuko Arochukwu Worldwide and a lover of football. He hails from Ibom
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 in Arochukwu
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 and is also a devoted Christian
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