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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2022
I have always challenged gender stereotypes. In the industries I have worked in, and for, I have often been one of the few, rather than one of the many. I have had to fight my corner many times. It never bothered me, but it is improving over time. I used it as an advantage. Perhaps because I grew up surrounded by brothers who never cut me any slack because I was a girl!
My Virgo perfectionism has meant I worked harder, and am driven by a desire to see results. I hope the example I lead, with international business achievements, will inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in business, technology and aviation.
My Pledge:
✔️ I will continue to challenge gender stereotypes, discrimination and bias.
✔️ I will continue to forge positive visibility of women.
✔️ I will continue to celebrate women’s achievements.
✔️ I will continue to call out gendered actions or assumptions.
✔️I will continue to maintain a gender equal mindset.
✔️ I will continue to help forge a gender equal world.
✔️ I will continue to try to influence others’ beliefs & actions
#breakthebias #breakthebias2022 #iwd2022 #womeninbusiness #womeninaviation #aviatorsafrica #womensupportingwomen #womenempoweringwomen
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Join us with @sindyfoster as we dive into aviation, strategies & success behind the scenes.
Thursday
8pm
Exclusive insights. Real talk. Live.
International Women’s Day 2026
#GiveToGain
Today I’m reflecting on the women whose courage and resilience made it possible for many of us to walk the paths we do today.
For a large part of my working life, I felt a deep connection to Africa - long before I began researching my ancestry. Years later, DNA results began revealing links between my Saint Lucian heritage and Nigeria, opening a journey of rediscovery across the Atlantic.
It made me think about the women who came before me.
⭐️ Women who crossed oceans under unimaginable circumstances.
⭐️ Women who preserved culture, language and identity.
⭐️ Women who held families and communities together through generations of change.
Many of their names were never written in history books.
But their strength, wisdom and sacrifice shaped the lives we live today.
The International Women’s Day 2026 theme #GiveToGain feels particularly meaningful in that context.
Because every generation of women who gave strength, protection, knowledge and opportunity created the possibility for the next generation to gain freedom, education and voice.
Their courage built the bridges we now have the privilege to cross.
As someone whose work focuses on reconnecting Africa, the Caribbean and South America, I’m constantly reminded that these connections were first carried across the Atlantic by women whose stories were rarely recorded, but whose legacy still lives within us.
Today we honour them.
And we continue their work by supporting the women and girls who will shape the future.
When women thrive, we all rise.
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD26
#GiveToGain
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Yesterday’s Aviation Town Hall asked a simple question: High air fares – are airlines really the problem?
What followed was a candid, sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary conversation between airlines, regulators, consumer protection, travel agents and media.
The discussion reinforced one thing clearly: fare outcomes cannot be understood — or improved — by focusing on one part of the system in isolation.
Thank you to the panelists, who graciously accepted the invitation:
- Professor Obiora Okonkwo, spokesperson for the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) and Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines.
- Mr Louis Odion, Executive Commissioner of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) - ably represented by Ondaje Ijagwu.
- Michael Achimugu, the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
- Dr Yinka Folami, National President, National Association of Nigerian Travel Agents (NANTA) and Chief Executive Travel & Logistics Centre Limited.
- Wole Shadare, aviation analyst, journalist and the Publisher of Aviation Metric.
…and to the 160+ industry stakeholders who joined the session and engaged constructively.
And last, but not least, a special thank you to my co-host Alex Nwuba for the insights shared (which moved the narrative before a single question was asked)….you’ll need to watch and see what happened next. 🙄
We’ll be sharing clips of the recording shortly and continuing the conversation through future Aviation Town Halls focused on OTP, ticketing transparency, and peak time chaos.
Drop a comment below if you would like an invite to the next one, and/or to receive a link to the full recording.
#AviationTownHall #NigerianAviation #AirFares #AviationPolicy #systemthinking
AVIATION TOWN HALL
High Air Fares: Are Airlines Really the Problem?
📅 Thursday 22 January
🕙 10:00am – 12:00pm (WAT)
💻 Live virtual event
Airlines are often blamed for high fares in Nigeria - but is that assumption correct?
Join this industry-only Aviation Town Hall for a structured, question-led discussion examining fares, capacity, and system constraints.
No presentations. Live audience participation.
Register here:
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Hosted by:
Sindy Foster (Avaero Capital Partners)
Alex Nwuba (Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association)
#nigerianaviation #nigerianairlines #nigeria #airfares
Yesterday - also repeated on AriseTV today - I discussed …
The Nigerian Aviation Contraction Loop.
Nigeria’s domestic aviation fares are often debated in isolation.
But high fares are an outcome - not the starting point.
Data from OAG shows that Nigeria entered December with fewer domestic seats available than the year before, at the end of a year marked by aircraft withdrawals, maintenance delays and operating disruption.
When capacity (the total number of seats or cargo space an airline offers for sale,) is depleted in a high fixed-cost industry such as aviation, prices rise to reflect the constraint on supply. Supply isn’t easily or quickly replaceable in aviation. So this constraint becomes a self-propelling cyclical race to the bottom. With passengers priced out of the market, and with revenue declining more capacity is lost - a Nigerian Aviation Contraction Loop.
If Nigeria wants air travel to become more affordable and predictable, the focus has to shift from fares to the operating conditions that determine how many aircraft can stay in service.
I’ve set out the full analysis in a short three-part series here:
👉 /2026/01/12/nigeria-aviation-capacity-and-pricing/
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WINDSOR FELLOWSHIP - GROUP 3 GRADUATION - 1991
With the PM John Major. 34 years ago….
Not sure where everyone is now….perhaps we should organise a reunion…😒 @windsorfellowship
Do you recognise yourself or anyone?
President Tinubu’s Visit to Saint Lucia: Empty Symbolism?
This week President Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited Saint Lucia as part of an OECS outreach to deepen ties between Africa and the Caribbean. While the visit has drawn negativity on both sides of the Atlantic, for me I see something more profound at stake—ancestral reconnection. This is very personal.
🌍 My Personal Connection to This Journey
This year I have been on a journey which I should never have had to take, to discover where I came from courtesy of 23andMe.
This wasn’t just a diplomatic courtesy. For people like me, it echoes a living history. Some of my own Nigerian ancestors migrated to Saint Lucia in the post-abolition period—not as enslaved people, but as free Africans seeking opportunity.
Oral history and academic research speaks of Nigerians who crossed the Atlantic by choice - at least three of these were my relatives. They left a legacy that still shapes identity, culture, and spiritual life in parts of Saint Lucia to this day. But few people are aware.
This visit matters. Not because of GDP. Not because of headlines. But because history is calling.
🔹 Let’s not underestimate the power of cultural diplomacy.
🔹 Let’s recognise that our history did not end with chains—it also includes voyages of freedom, resilience, and return.
🔹 And let’s finally build the Africa–Caribbean future our ancestors only dreamed of.
St Lucia is more than “a colony of slaves”.
Another Father’s Day without my Dad…💔 Here is an old grainy photo of him with my eldest brother (who celebrates a birthday today). This photo was taken before I was born.
I wrote a poem last weekend on the anniversary of my Dad’s death, but decided to post it for Father’s Day instead.
⚜️ A love letter to my daddy ⚜️
They said it would get easier, but it hasn’t.
They said the pain would feel less intense, but it didn’t.
They said living would make the loss more bearable, but they lied.
They said I should remember the good times, I just cry.
They said that I should have got over it by now, I have really tried.
The truth is it’s all bullshit, so why try.
The days just add up to more years, more tears, and less memories of you.
How can you forget your first love?
How can you feel less pain when a piece of you was ripped away so brutally, far too soon.
So I don’t care any more.
I don’t care how long you lived.
I don’t care how many years since you were taken.
I don’t care that I was only 8, you were 38!
One day Daddy.
One day my beloved Daddy.
One day God will take the pain away.
Until that day Daddy.
Until that day when I feel your warm embrace.
Until I am reunited with my darling Daddy.
This pain will never go away. 💔
47 years today….and still feels like yesterday. The pain never ends. Every extra day is hard enough, every extra year is unbearable.
Never-ending love = never-ending pain.
All my love, Daddy’s Little Girl 💔
