A lot of you just have a big bone stuck in your throat regarding a Black African country transitioning into a global player..........And many of you are still struggling to deny it in the face of all evidence.
If an economy worth just over $100bn 15 years ago is touching $550bn today and is the number one destination for investment on an entire continent, what story does that tell?
But as usual it's so much more comfortable to do that European thing of seeing and hearing nothing which conflicts with your delusional supremacist worldview.
It's called realism based on observation. I have spent most of my life on the African continent, working in aviation, including, unfortunately, some trips to Nigeria. There are fundamental problems in the way people think and act there which mitigate against ever running a successful, profitable, and safe airline based there. You would do well to achieve two out of those three criteria. The history of failed or unsafe Nigerian airlines is there as proof.
The size of the economy is irrelevant.