Arik Air has been bestowed with the honour of Africa’s Most Outstanding Airline of the Year 2023 by the Awards General Committee of the African Quality Achievement Awards.

The awards ceremony was held on Friday, May 19, 2023 at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Road, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The African Quality Achievement Awards is an annual event initiated at celebrating leadership innovation and creativity in quality and management in Africa.

The award is aimed at identifying, recognizing and rewarding companies, personalities and products that apply quality culture and quality management best practices to the analysis, planning and implementation and control of policies designed to achieve corporate objectives in both profit and non-profit making organizations in Africa.

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The event is initiated by the Africa Quality Institute in collaboration with the World Quality Alliance with support of Chartered Quality Institute (U.K) and Pan African Quality Organization.

The awards committee said Arik Air has over the years proven to be a leading light in the area of quality culture and quality management best practices.

Speaking about the significance of the award, Adetokunbo Adekunbi, Arik Air’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “We are delighted with this quality achievement award and want to thank the organisers for this honour.

“Arik Air is committed to continual improvement of the management system and operational performance, which includes regular review of all performance-based indicators including Safety Performance Indicators (SPI’s) and their Targets (SPT’s), regular analysis of malfunctions or undesirable operational results and follow-up of corrective actions and their effectiveness.”

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.

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