The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), today unveiled Valuejet Airline as the official airline partner of the Federation.
Valuejet Airlines, a Nigerian airline with barely three years of operation has consistently played a key role in supporting the growth of Nigerian football, stepping into the gap to help ferry the Super Eagles of Nigeria to and fro their games after the NFF’s past arrangement with another airline went cold.
Valuejets help in the Libya fiasco
Valuejet Airline played an instrumental role in Nigeria getting a favourable resolution at the CAF tribunal in the unfortunate international incident involving the Super Eagles of Nigeria. On the 13th of October, 2024, the Super Eagles were rerouted to a less-used airport by officials of the Libyan Government as they commenced their descent Benghazi. This was the beginning of a harrowing experience that saw the team locked at the airport with no help in sight. The team eventually returned to Nigeria and CAF ruled that the game was forfeit for Libya.
To secure the ruling, the testimony of the airline pilot from Valuejet and their flight logs played an important role in convincing the committee that Libya acted in bad faith.
Official partnership
Despite being in partnership for a while, the official partnership will commence this international window as Valuejet will ferry the team back from Kigali after the World Cup qualifier on the 21st of March, 2025
