It also explained that the federal government requested for Ethiopian Airlines aircraft painted on the Nigeria Air logo for the inspection of Nigerians and the airline agreed. “At one point, the leadership of Nigeria Air, which doesn’t include Ethiopian Airlines, asked us to bring aircraft painted with the Nigerian logo to facilitate the progress of the Air Operators’ Certificate. Tasew emphasized that Nigeria Air was already established before Ethiopian Airlines was invited to partner with it. Tasew said, “Ethiopian Airlines didn’t have any intention or plan to set up an airline in Nigeria. For your information, the logo was already defined by them, it was not by Ethiopian Airlines.
