The President of International Civil Aviation Organisation ICAO, Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu says the organisation has been engaging ministers of aviation globally in discussions over recent airport attacks to strengthen security across the globe.
Speaking in an interview with aviation reporters in Abuja after a meeting organised in his honour by the ministry of aviation, Aliu who recognized aviation security as sensitive one, did not disclose the strategies to be implemented but he assured of collaborations with Nigeria in order to nip any threat in the bud as security was one of the critical issues in aviation.
According to the ICAO President, “Few months ago, I did send a team to do assessment in Nigeria and also in some neighboring countries including Chad and Cameroun”.
Aliu said ICAO was working very closely with the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology Zaria to transform the college to a regional training college of excellence as means of capacity building.
He said the level of infrastructural development and implementation has been encouraging.
Speaking on the challenges facing him as the ICAO President, Aliu said one of the challenges was to see how to raise the level of implementation of ICAO standard of recommended international practices among member countries not withstanding their level of resources.
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