Nigeria’s largest carrier, Arik Air, on Thursday, October 1 refuted claim in some quarters that the airline is facing financial challenges.

The airline said: “We would like to once again state that the airline is not under any abnormal financial or operational difficulties and wish to assure passengers of the high level of safety and customer service that we have been providing since inception in 2006.”

In a statement, the airline’s management slammed reports published recently by a site alleging that the airline was in financial trouble and may be going bankrupt.

It added, “These harbingers of bad news, in their senseless sensationalism and quack journalism, would stop at nothing, including pulling down national institutions and icons, in order to achieve their narrow pecuniary interests and those of their desperate sponsors.”