Originally Posted by
ExSp33db1rd
as a result of the then Dictator - sorry President - Jomo Nkomah (?) insisting that the only way BOAC was going continue flying to Nigeria was if they used their then most prestigious aircraft, the Strat.
That doesn't quite ring true.
Nigeria didn't have its first President until 1963, following independence in 1960, and the Stratocruisers were long gone by then.