Nigeria Pays N4.25bn to 600 More Former Airways Workers

What changed

Nigeria’s federal government has paid N4.25bn to 600 more former Nigeria Airways workers. The latest payment brings the total number of former workers paid to 3,300, more than two decades after the national carrier stopped operating.

Why it matters

This is a long-delayed obligation finally moving through the system, one group of former workers at a time. For the 600 recipients, the payment turns an unresolved employment claim into money received after years of waiting.

The scale of the delay is the sharper point. Nigeria Airways has been gone for more than 20 years, yet its former workforce is still being settled in stages. That makes the N4.25bn payment meaningful, but not necessarily final: the number of eligible workers still awaiting payment, and the timetable for any further disbursements, remain unclear.

The government’s next step will show whether this is part of a defined settlement process or another isolated instalment.