Ex-NCAA DG Muhtar Usman Is Dead

Capt. Muhtar Usman, the former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, is dead.

The former Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau, and Managing Director of the defunct Nigeria Airways died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Zaria after a brief illness.

Usman died at the age of 63.

The development was confirmed by the President of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Illitrus Ahmadu.

Ahmadu said, “I just received the news of his death. He was rushed to a hospital yesterday in Zaria, Kaduna State, before he passed on.”

Usman became the director general of the civil aviation regulatory body in October, 2014, and served for five years before he handed over to the present NCAA boss, Capt. Musa Nuhu, in October 2019.