{"id":276897,"date":"2019-05-23T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEH2kEedxL6E60QbUwb96H60qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4c2JCzC4uZsDMO7BoQY?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:48:06","slug":"a-nigerian-diaspora-official-accused-ethiopian-and-egyptian-airlines-of-drug-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276897","title":{"rendered":"A Nigerian diaspora official accused Ethiopian and Egyptian airlines of drug cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 IOL reported that the chairman of Nigeria\u2019s diaspora commission accused Ethiopian Airlines and EgyptAir of running drug cartels through their networks, a claim that airlines and investigators would have to answer with facts rather than slogans.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-photo.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Nigerian diaspora official accused Ethiopian and Egyptian airlines of drug cartels\" \/>\n<p>The allegation landed in a region where airport policing, customs corruption, and transit trafficking are long-running problems, and where national carriers are also symbols of state prestige.<\/p>\n<p>Mereja keeps the wire as a claim-on-record file, not as a verdict. Readers should note that a political accusation is not the same as a court finding.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as aviation and crime-claim archive, the May 2019 accusation dates one public clash between Nigerian diaspora politics and major African carriers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/africa\/ethiopian-egyptian-airlines-accused-of-running-drug-cartels-in-nigeria\">IOL<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian, Egyptian airlines accused of running drug cartels in Nigeria&nbsp;&nbsp;IOLThe Chairman and CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission have accused Ethiopian Airlines and Egypt Air of operating drug cartels in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ethiopian-Airlines-plane-photo.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a25","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754873,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276897\/revisions\/754873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}