Air Peace airlifts Super Eagles players back to Nigeria

Nigeria’s major airline, Air Peace has airlifted Super Eagles back to Nigeria, commending the players for their determination, which gave them victory, noting that they were not demoralized after losing in the semi finals.

The airline also congratulated Super Eagles that won bronze at this year’s Nation’s Cup, held in Egypt after defeating Tunisia in a third place match last Wednesday.

“We congratulate our national team for doing us proud. The Ahmed Musa-led team flew the flag of our nation proudly both in and out of the field. They gave out their all. We congratulate them for not letting the loss at the semi-finals affect them in the third place match. They showed the Nigerian resilience,” the airline said in a statement signed by Toyin Olajide, its Chief Operating Officer.

The nation’s foremost carrier said that by celebrating the Super Eagles by Nigerians, the players would be encouraged to achieve greater success in future and commended the federal government, the coach and the management of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for leading the team to winning bronze in the tournament.

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“We invite Nigerians to appreciate the boys and the good work the Amaju Pinnick- led NFF has been doing. We equally commend the federal government of Nigeria for giving them every necessary support towards achieving this glory. We should look forward to the future.

It was Air Peace flight commanded by the airline female pilot, Captain Simisola Ajibola that airlifted the team from Nigeria to Egypt before the tournament and the airline also brought them back in a flight commanded by Captain Ikechukwu Ugochukwu, which landed in Abuja Friday morning.

Olajide said that the airline is humbled to carry out such national duty for the country and would always be ready to serve Nigeria anytime it is called upon to do so.

IFEOMA OKEKE

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.