Barrister Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace, has announced a package of over N300 million to train 52 executive members of the National Association Nigerian Students (NANS) in non-violence education in Nigeria and at Emory University in the United States.
Onyema broke the news when the Grand Patron of NANS in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ubong King and leaders of the students body visited the corporate headquarters of Air Peace in Lagos.
The airline, he added, would also fly leaders of NANS and all other categories of students to school on resumption and out of school on vacation for a flat fare of N18,000.
He said the airline was offering a fare much better than the 15 percent discount the students sought because of its belief in the youths’ capacity to transform the country.
Onyema praised the executives of NANS for pursuing issues relating to the country’s well being without ethnic considerations, saying the nation needed a pool of focused, detribalised and non-violent youths to drive its development agenda.
He urged NANS executive to regard the opportunity offered by the airline to train them in non-violence education with seriousness, saying they were expected to return to the country as non-violence experts to support the campaign for peace his not-for-profit organisation, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) championed for many years.
He said Air Peace had been endorsed as the official airline of Nigerian students, appealing to the carrier to grant students a 15 percent rebate on all fares.
The rebate, he said, would afford students the opportunity of enjoying the safe flight services of the airline.
