Nigerian airlines have been barred from the United States Federal Aviation Administration Category One Status, US FAA CAT 1, International Aviation Safety Assessment Programme. This comes due to the failure of Nigeria’s airlines to operate directly to the US for two years or vice-versa, according to Business Day. Industrial data showed that Nigeria’s name is currently missing from the list of African countries in the FAA Flight Standard Service International Aviation Safety Assessment, IASA. However, while Nigeria is exempted, Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Morocco, and South Africa are the African…