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Air Peace Gifts Olympians, Nations Cup Winners Free Local, Int’l Tickets

by Yusuf Babalola
3 years ago
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Air Peace Airline, over the weekend, announced the gifting of free local and international flying tickets to the 1980 National Football team and 1976 Olympians.

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Air Peace spokesman, Stanley Olisa, in a statement, indicated the chairman of Air Peace, Barrister Allen Onyema, pledged to build a Wall of Fame for Nigeria’s distinguished sports icons whose strides played a tremendous role in unifying the country, projecting her in a favourable light and representing the entire Black race positively.

Onyema, who was represented by executive director, Air Peace, Nnenna Onyema, said Air Peace will sponsor the building of a “Wall of Fame where the names of our sports heroes of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and those of others who have won laurels for our dear nation, beginning with the then Green Eagles and our national football team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria for the first time in our history, will be displayed.”

Onyema was honoured for his humanitarian act of rescuing Nigerians in South Africa amidst xenophobic attacks and his immense contributions to the Nigerian economy through job creation.

He said: “we cannot adequately promote FESTAC of Sports without, in one way or another, recognising and honouring our sports heroes and those who have made such huge sacrifices through sports for the good of Africa and the Black race in general.

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“To this end therefore, Air Peace shall sponsor the building of a Wall of Fame where the names of our sports heroes of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and those of others who have won laurels for our dear nation, beginning with the then Green Eagles and our national football team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria for the first time in our history, will be displayed.

Those that won sporting laurels in various sporting events like the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and subsequent African Cup of Nations will also be included in this Wall of Fame, he promised.

“For the 1980 National Football team referred to above, Air Peace shall sponsor an event where they would be celebrated and honoured. The surviving members of that team are hereby made Special Ambassadors of Air Peace and are entitled, for the rest of their lives, to fly Air Peace free of charge, six times in every year on the domestic destinations and once a year to any foreign destination serviced by Air Peace.

“On the night of celebrations in their honour, Air Peace shall equally give out certain financial rewards to all members of that team including the heirs or spouses of the deceased ones amongst them.”

Noting that sports have become a potent tool not only for national peace, unity, and cohesion but also a powerful channel for international relations and diplomacy.

Onyema explained that these iconic past sportsmen and women are being honoured in recognition of the powerful tool that football has become in fostering unity in Nigeria. He emphasised that such minor gestures would go a long way to encourage the youth to have faith in the nation, besides encouraging broad nationalism as against ethnic and religious nationalism.

In September 2021, Air Peace penned a sponsorship deal with the Nigerian Football Federation(NFF), for the National Teams, as their official carrier. The agreement, which is for a four-year period, is renewable annually. The initial agreement is worth N300 million.

 


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