NIGERIA’S state carrier has resumed direct flights to London after a six-year gap caused by the airlines debts. A Nigeria Airways official said the company would operate twice-weekly flights on the profitable Lagos-London route with a DC-10 aircraft leased from a French company. Nigeria Airways sought the help of British Airways to run the Lagos-London route on a daily basis after abandoning it. But the agreement, signed in 1998 and which expired last October, appears to be heading for the rocks. – Reuters