Atlantic Aviation is CHCs re-entry to the Nigerian market. Any foreign company wanting to operate in Nigeria has to have a Nigerian partner on a 60/40 basis. Atlantic has some very sharp managers who will eventually run rings around Bristow. Aero is on its knees and PAAN is faltering. Both Bristow and PAAN are likely to lose a lot of ground to AA and Caverton over the next 2 years.
We seem to be containing the Ebola virus here in Nigeria
. Boko Haram is still an undecided story, but may split my country in two. They are the biggest threat since the Biafran war but none of our politicians seem willing to acknowledge that because they are too bust pursuing their own vested interests
. Up to 20% of Nigeria may now be under the control of Boko Haram (and remember we have a population of around 170 million so that's up to 34 million - larger than some European countries). The military has meddled with our politics for years (and still does) but now finds itself outmatched by an enemy willing to fight and die for its cause. Institutionalized corruption and the greed of the officers has eroded esprit de corps.
Contributing to the crisis is the fact that most of the officers are political appointees, whose promotions are based on ethnicity and loyalty to the powerful, not on their astuteness in military affairs.
In a country where pursuit of power regularly trumps a sense of responsibility to the citizenry, Boko Haram is used as a political football to score cynical personal and partisan goals
