A Nigerian American returnee, Babawande Afolabi, has been praised online for his amazing initiative of launching an airline called Green Africa Airways.
Though a Twitter handle @OvieAli claimed it is a new airline company, news about the outfit has been in the media as far back as 2018 as seen in Bloomberg and Black Enterprise.
American returnee launches a new airline and takes delivery of the new airplanes in Lagos. Babawande Afolabi who is in his 30s, was an investment banker in the US, and will begin affordable air transportation to Abuja (ABV), Akure (AKR), Enugu (ENU), Ilorin (ILR), Owerri. pic.twitter.com/JtZTebeR1F
— ᴏᴠɪᴇ ™☤???????? (@OvieAli) May 15, 2021
A check on Bloomberg shows that the company which is under the sub-industry category of transportation and logistics was founded in 2015.
In 2018, Black Enterprise gathered that an order was placed for some airbuses after “the company reached an agreement with Boeing for some 737 MAX 8 aircraft”.
A further check on Facebook shows that the company announced that they indeed took delivery of a new aircraft with registration number ZS-ESS/5N-GAA on Friday, May 14, and are beginning commercial operations to Enugu, Abuja, Ilorin, Owerri, Port Harcourt, among others.
See the Facebook post below:
It was also reported that the young man who is from Ile-Ife had a degree in political science and economics from Illinois Wesleyan University.
Before venturing into the airline industry, he was a venture investment expert in America with years of experience.
