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Nigeria’s Aviation Minister, Festus Keyamo, says Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an American aerospace company, Boeing, to enhance sustainable development in the country’s aviation sector.

The minister, who disclosed this on Thursday in a statement posted on his official X page, noted that the MoU among several other packages, will provide leadership-development training to help airlines in the country enhance their leadership pipeline.

“Yesterday, in Seattle, State of Washington in the USA, I led a delegation of the Executives of major airlines in Nigeria under the auspices of Airline Operators of Nigeria and other important stakeholders in the civil aviation ecosystem in Nigeria to sign an important Memorandum of Understanding with THE BOEING Company, one of the major aircraft manufacturers in the world,” the minister said.

The development comes more than a month after Boeing agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy charges stemming from two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max planes that killed 346 passengers and crew members in 2018 and 2019.

This is after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) ruled that the company violated a deal meant to reform amidst safety concerns.

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