Allen Onyema
Allen Onyema is a Lawyer and successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of Air Peace, Nigeria’s leading private airline.
Driven by a mission to create employment and provide efficient air travel services, Allen founded Air peace in 2013 with seven aircraft. For Allen, starting an indigenous airline goes beyond making profits, he is a firm believer in creating social impacts and community developments through entrepreneurship.
Presently, Air Peace has grown to become the largest indigenous airline in West Africa and Central Africa, serving major cities in Nigeria and flight services to international destinations such as Ghana, United Arab Emirates, India, USA, China, Senegal, Sierra Leone and more. Air Peace recently became the first African airline to fly new E195-E2 aircraft when it took delivery of a brand new E195-E2 directly from Embraer facility in Sao Jose don Campos, Brazil.
Allen obtained a Law degree from the University of Ibadan. He later proceeded to the Nigerian Law School and was called to bar in 1989.
Allen started his law career at Nwizugbo and Company in 1990 and was soon appointed Head of chambers in 1992. Shortly, he left the legal firm to establish his own outfit, Onyema and Company. He diversified his business, venturing into real estate under Allen Onyema and Company as well as export and import under Continental Business Links Limited before joining the aviation industry.
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Allen Onyema demonstrated his patriotism and humanity with a rare feat on the 11th of September 2019, when he sent a free evacuation/rescue flight at the MMIA Cargo and Hajj Terminal in Lagos to convey hundreds of stranded Nigerians who wished to return to the country after South Africa’s Xenophobic attack on foreign businesses.
Allen is a strong advocate of peace and nationalism. He initiated the 1st Nigeria Forever Project in 2005, a project dedicated to promoting nationalism. For this, he was recognized as the second African to be appointed to the Executive Board of the Global Nonviolence Conference Series Inc. USA in April 2007. As a member of the Global Nonviolence board, he won the hosting rights for the Nonviolence and Peace Global Conference which held in Nigeria, 2007.
In recognition of his dedication to social development, Allen has received several awards including the Africa Leadership Merit Award by Africa International News Magazine in 2006, Hope for Humanity Award by Rotary Club in 2007, and the Martin Luther King Global Award for Pioneering Non-violence Education in West Africa, 2007. Allen was also instated as an Ambassador of Change, Non-governmental Organization, Centre of Change in 2019 and was L&M Leader of the Month, September 2019 for demonstrating compassion and taking the lead in meeting a need.
Allen Onyema is a powerful inspiration, and we are so proud.