In November, auditors from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are to visit Nigeria to assess the state of the aviation sector.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Nigerians fly despite the risks

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the U.N. body that oversees air travel recognizes facial recognition as its primary biometric standard, with iris and fingerprints accepted as the two optional identifiers.

CNN: Fully biometric airports becoming a reality

To guard against that risk, the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has just held a summit in Montreal, at which it divided the long list of ATM modernisation projects into manageable chunks, on which the world's aviation authorities will try to agree standards, one at a time.

ECONOMIST: Aviation