Nigeria Eyes New National Airline

Former Nigeria Airways official Dele Ore remembers that, in its heyday, the airline was an airborne ambassador to the world for Africa’s most-populous country. “You have Nigerian dish being served by Nigerian cabin crew, being flown by Nigerian pilots,” he said. But those days are long gone. The carrier folded in 2003. It spent its final years enfeebled by mismanagement and corruption, said Ore, a former pilot and director of flight operations for the airline. “The flights were just...

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