Workers strike grounds flights at Nigeria Arik air

A strike by aviation unions on Tuesday grounded flight operations at Nigeria's largest airline Arik Air, leaving thousands of local and foreign passengers stranded, the company and union officials said. "Arik Air expresses its dismay and disappointment that a group of aviation unions have ambushed and disrupted the operations of the airline from early hours of Tuesday," Arik's spokesman Adebanji Ola said in a statement.
He said the unions prevented its workers from gaining access to the general aviation terminal and international airport in Lagos, disabling the checking-in of passengers for both domestic and international flights.