officer of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, has said
The chief executive officer of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, has said his company was never interested in being a core investor in the national carrier project, Nigeria Air. Speaking to journalists on the si house delines of the ongoing 18th Doha Forum in Doha, Qatar, Al Baker said the Nigerian government only approached them for help on how to go about floating a national carrier. While refuting rumours that the national carrier project was suspended for lack of investors, Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation had listed Qatar Airways and Ethiopian Airways as some of the potential investors of the national carrier. “We never applied to serve as core i find nvestor in the proposed Nigerian national carrier. The government of Nigeria only approached us on how to go about setting up the carrier. And we advised that Nigeria needs massive investments to float a national carrier,” Vanguard quoted Al Baker to have said on Sunday. “Nigeria, being the largest country i