Air Peace wins ‘Company of the Year’ award

Nigeria’s leading carrier, Air Peace, has emerged company of the year at the 2019 Business Hallmark People of the Year Awards, organised by the Hallmark Newspaper Group. The event took place on Sunday, November 10, 2019, at Civic Center, Victoria Island, Lagos.

While receiving the award, Ejiroghene Eghagha, the Chief of Finance and Administration, Air Peace, expressed gratitude to the organisers of the award. She stated that it was a great delight to know that Air Peace was being recognised as the company of the year.

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Eghagha said, “It gladdens me and, of course, the entire team to know that Air Peace, West Africa’s largest carrier, is being recognised today as an airline that has significantly contributed to the growth of Nigeria’s aviation industry”.

Eghagha noted that the five-year journey of the airline has not been devoid of challenges but collective determination and visionary leadership have kept us soaring to the top and achieving more firsts. She added that the airline will continue to blaze the trail in the provision of safe and best-in-class flight services to all its customers.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

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.