The Federal Government will support Dr. Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, the President of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, for another term in office.
Senator Hadi Sirika, the Minister of State for Aviation, stated this at the ICAO headquarters in Montreal, Canada while on a visit to the President-in-Council.
According to Sirika, Aliu had nurtured the organisation in its role of being an enabler for the development of international civil aviation, thereby enhancing friendship and understanding among nations and eoples of the world.
He cited some of Aliu’s his laudable projects to include the ‘No Country is Left Behind” policy, which aimed at providing more direct assistance to States, especially developing countries.
He promised to leverage on the office of the President-in-Council to deepen development in Nigeria’s aviation industry.
The Minister, who was accompanied by the Acting Nigerian Ambassador to Canada, Balarabe Ja’afar Mohammed, and top echelon of the Nigerian aviation sector, also urged Aliu to continue to take his job in the organisation as a worthy ambassador.
In his response, Aliu congratulated Sirika on his appointment and expressed confidence that he would bring his experience as an aviation expert to bear on his office.
He called for the upgrading of the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology, Zaria into a regional institution in the African sub region, promising to support such initiative.
It would be recalled that Aliu assumed leadership of the global aviation body on November 13, 2013 as the first African to head ICAO with membership of almost 200 countries.
Sirika also visited the Nigeria office at ICAO headquarters, where he was received by the representative of Nigeria on ICAO Council, Martins Nwafor.