New flag carrier for Nigeria

Nigeria Airlines can be established for N985 billion (US$6.2bn), says managing director of AirGold Aviation, Engr. Ifeanyi Okocha. Okocha and his team of aviation professionals have carried out a feasibility study which will soon be submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan that will state the estimated start-up costs as well as proposing that the new carrier will be managed professionals not by civil servants. “If Nigeria Airways Limited was managed professionally; the national carrier would still be operating till today. But it was run in a civil service manner,” said Okocha. Okocha added that as at the time NAL was liquidated,