Dana to Air Sierra Leone: Nigerians celebrate Obi Mbanuzuo's appointment as COO

Nigerians are celebrating the milestone achieved by Obi Mbanuzuo, who was recently appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Air Sierra Leone (Freetown), the new privately owned flag carrier of Sierra Leone.

Mbanuzuo will be overseeing operational planning, safety compliance, and commercial strategy at Air Sierra Leone. Three years ago, Green Africa, Nigeria’s Lagos-based airline, appointed Mbanuzuo as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and a member of the Company’s senior leadership team effective from March 2022.

Obi is an industry veteran with two decades of global industry experience and a unique understanding of the Nigerian and African markets. Prior to joining Green Africa, Obi was the COO, CCO and Accountable Manager of Dana Airlines, where he provided overall leadership for the day-to-day management of the Company and was the airline’s officer responsible to the NCAA.

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Obi launched his aviation career at Virgin Atlantic, where he served as a member of the revenue management and network planning team. He was later seconded to Nigeria to help get Virgin Nigeria off the ground and build the commercial team.

Air Sierra Leone plans to debut commercial flights between Freetown and London Gatwick in early June with a B737-8 sourced from Ascend Airways (YD, London Gatwick), according to CEO Emmanuel Iza.

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.