Nigeria rake 1-2bn-commercialising-drone-services

By intelligentbase

The Federal Government has concluded plans to put a policy in place for the regulation of use of drones for commercial purposes.

This is coming amid reports that Nigeria has become one of the developing economies with an increasing use of the unmanned aircraft.

The regulation policy, when fully put in place would see Nigeria raking in about $1.2 billion in revenue from licencing and other service charges from commercial usage of drones, annually.

It was gathered that as at March 2017, more than 10 private companies had acquired the device for services ranging from monitoring projects, bulkmail services to other agro-based projects.

Laying more emphasis on the development, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday expressed concern over the increased usage of drones by individuals and organisations for both commercial and private purposes.

He stated that in order to check the dangers posed by such an act, Nigeria has no option than to come up with necessary regulations to address the development.

It was learnt that the regulation, when fully formulated would see owners of drones paying about 5 per cent of market value of the device in addition to air services charge as part of the cost of using the aircraft in Nigeria.

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