Air Nigeria, the national carrier and second-largest airline of the West African nation, has been grounded for safety checks.<br /><br />The move comes days after one of the country's worst air crashes resulted in the deaths of all 153 people on board.<br /><br />Thousands of Air Nigeria passengers are now left stranded as rumours of financial troubles and an engineers’ strike adds to the challenges facing the carrier.<br /><br />The most damning claims, however, come from John Nnorom, former finance director, who says the airline's engineers are under commercial pressure to certify unfit aircraft for travel.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from Abuja.
