Stolen info from another site:
"Arik Air apparently canceled the launch of a two weekly service to Abidjan, which was due to start on 28 October. Air Nigeria has a five weekly service from Lagos to Abidjan."
An article in a Nigerian paper (that is generally very favorable to Arik) that speaks about Nigerian avaition (including Arik):
News -- 'Nigerian airlines are going through slow death'
"This Day" Nigerian daily newspaper:
'Nigerian airlines're going through slow death'
By Chinedu Eze, 10.31.2010
(An interview with the Minister of Aviation??? It reads like an interview with the acting MD of Arik. I thought pilots would love this
"I asked FAAN the other day; you know the issue of Calabar, where a taxi went into the tarmac and hit Arik aircraft. Never in the world has it occurred before.
Explosion did not happen because we have new generation aircraft that has double tank protection. If it were the 737-300, that plane would have exploded and killed everybody. But that plane double-tank and it is explosion proof. We just thank God that the specification is correct. "