LAGOS, Nigeria 17 October 2024-/African Media Agency (AMA)/– News emerged that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, was named in reference to some authorized points within the US. The prices had been primarily a rehearsal of a hitherto unproven string of prices about funds used to purchase plane between 2017 and 2018. Some of the costs additionally seek advice from areas like mortgage administration, militant rehabilitation, which had acquired international acclaim as gorgeous success over a decade in the past. 

While these prices had been cleared earlier, the US authorities curiously raised contemporary ones in 2024, which had been markedly misreported in a piece of the Nigerian media in what was merely uninformed media trial.

In truth, since November 2023 when Air Peace introduced its allow to function flights from Nigeria to Europe, the corporate has confronted a barrage of challenges, resulting in questions on the hyperlink between the various successes and heroics of Air Peace and the mounting enterprise challenges. With its Lagos-London flight, Air Peace instantly introduced competitors to bear on that worldwide route, inflicting a plunge in flight prices from 4 million naira to 1.2 million naira. 

The media must train restraint and professionalism in analysing the details of the case, as an alternative of partaking in uninformed media trial as seen lately.

Many Successes and Heroics
The airline has been receiving large applause for its noble gesture. Some of probably the most not notable ones embody rescuing Nigerians trapped in war-torn zones equivalent to Ukraine and Sudan and likewise airlifting the residents again house freed from cost throughout xenophobic assault in South Africa and lots of philanthropic actions.

Onyema’s Peace Advocacy
Worldwide, it’s recognized that Onyema’s worth advocacy was massively instrumental in dismantling violent militancy within the Niger Delta area utilizing the famed Nonviolence Training Programme. The success of the programme attracted international acclaim when the US authorities, the EU, BBC, and different native and worldwide our bodies visited the Obubra Cross River State Camp, venue of the coaching.

Industry enlargement

With its objective of offering seamless home, regional and worldwide connectivity to Nigerians and different Africans, Air Peace has remained centered on route enlargement. The airline has over time elevated its routes, now serving over 20 home locations inside Nigeria, 10 regional areas throughout Africa and 7 worldwide routes.
Starting in 2014 with merely seven plane, the airline which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this October, now has a fleet dimension of over 30 plane and over 26 extra model new plane on agency order, turning into the most important provider in West Africa.
By its actions, the corporate has created hundreds of direct and oblique jobs each in Nigeria and past.

“Our expansion has not only broadened our operational footprint but also created thousands of direct jobs and indirect employment opportunities within and outside Nigeria,” mentioned the Air Peace boss lately.
Given the airine’s heroic exploits within the Nigerian aviation business previously decade of operation, it’s crucial that efforts must be made to keep away from unnecessarily disparaging the airline.

There can also be a necessity for Nigerians and related authorities to proceed to supply large assist to Air Peace and different home airways making Nigeria proud within the aviation sector each at regional and worldwide stage.

Dr Nwogbo is a Lecturer at UNN, and convener for Concerned Academics for Equitable Society (CAfES).
He might be reached at victordegreat@gmail.com

Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of Concerned Academics for Equitable Society (CAfES).

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