Air Peace's Allen Onyema says Nigerian airlines are bleeding $15 million a year to bird strikes
Billionaires Africa | 20.05.2026 20:41
Allen Onyema has a number he keeps returning to, and it keeps getting harder to ignore. Nigerian airlines lose at least N20 billion ($15 million) every year to bird strikes, a figure the Air Peace chairman has cited across industry forums, television interviews and stakeholder sessions as evidence that the country's aviation sector is fighting a crisis that gets far less attention than fuel prices and taxation.
