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FIGHT AGAINST INSURGENCY: NAF WINGS ANOTHER COMBAT HELICOPTER PILOT.

Barely a month after a combined graduation of Basic Flying Course and Tactical Flying Course, where 4 officers were decorated with their Basic Pilot Wings and 2 other officers awarded Limited Combat Rating certificates, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) today, 27 October 2020, winged another combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Shehu Ibrahim, after his Basic and Advanced Helicopter Flying Training at the Indian Air Force Helicopter Flying Training School, Hakimpat, India. The winging of the combat pilot is yet another milestone in the NAF’s capacity building initiative to meet emerging and contemporary security challenges in the Country.

Speaking during the winging ceremony, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, expressed delight to receive the young pilot back from India and congratulated him for his outstanding performance during the Courses. The CAS emphasized that the NAF considers the human being as its most important resource and would therefore continue to invest heavily in equipping its personnel with the requisite skills to enable them be more effective and efficient in carrying out assigned tasks. In this regard, he revealed that about 200 NAF personnel were currently undergoing training in 9 different countries of the World including the United States of America, United Kingdom, , Pakistan, China, Czech Republic and South Africa, amongst others.

Air Marshal Abubakar expressed his gratitude to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, for his to the NAF which had not only enabled the acquisition of new platforms but also facilitated robust and result-orientated training for enhanced professional performance. He reiterated the NAF’s resolve to sustain its human capacity development efforts, since the Service remains a veritable instrument for the maintenance of national security. The CAS ended his remarks by charging the young officer to put in his best as he s his colleagues in the North East and North West Theatres to secure the Nation.

The newly-winged pilot, who is a member of the 64th Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics. He had his ab-initio flying training at 401 Flying Training School NAF Kaduna where he flew the Diamond DA-40 aircraft. He was nominated to attend Basic and Advanced Helicopter Flying Training at the Indian Air Force Helicopter Flying Training School, Hakimpet, India from 7 July 2019 to 6 October 2020. His training at the Indian Air Force comprised a total of 122 flying hours on the Chetak Helicopter.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations & Information
Nigerian Air Force
27 October 2020

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NAF or Nothing

Mazaje!!!!

We the best.

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MickzyDonald:
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If you want to vomit rubbish better stup.

Congratulations NAF!

How is this news, were they not suppose to produce pilot before?

I don't even know if the military has any strategic information hidden from Boko Haram.

This country will graduate pilots and buy weapons and it will be all over the news, but palliatives news will be kept secret from hungry masses.

This is just Amazing.

Congratulations!!
Soldier go!Soldier Come!

In all we do, Don't invest your time trying to Please men in Detriment to Pleasing GOD..

Once you go, Life Continues..
Once you go, it's to go stand Before the Almighty GOD!!

Who would you rather Please?
Man or GOD?
It's in your Court to decide now you have Life. Once life goes, it Shifts to God's Court!

I Righteousness would Rather Please God Almighty and get bashed and insulted by man,
Than Please man, Get man's Praises only to get Bashed by GOD ..

Congratulations to him!

Good news


But imagine a whole airforce celebrating the winging of one pilot. It then begs the question; how many pilots are currently in active duty in the airforce?

Can we comfortably get a whole fleet in the air without shortage of pilots? And that's even if we have a whole fleet.

And senators are sharing 120bn

GreatResearcher:
If you want to vomit rubbish better stup.

How did you know

Government of the North and for the North alone. These people make it seems as if the south is deficient when it comes to public service. I don't
Blame them, the fault is of the federal character commission that's already dead. If not where are Yoruba and Igbo that are sound in every area. Quota system has destroyed a lot of things in this nation.

Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright

They won't kill this one because he is bokoharam offspring. Nonsense.

Zzz

Yet you people cannot conduct a successful airstrike against boko haram...Online NAF

make una no kill this one as una did to arotile, the innocent beautiful girl with future buharis generation wasted like that.

Keep resting in Peace AROTILE!!

Ok

The end is near

War is coming

this news doesnt concern average nigerian

Na so

Good news

Why northerner??


Just asking

cool
Covid-19 palliative prank gone wrong

Most populous black country Air Force is celebrating winging a single flight officer?

Nigeria is where the ordinary is blown out of proportion to look extraordinary.




Na Carpenter dem suppose wing before?

Where are the names checkers crew
Come in here and check something for me

Very good, nigeria has many talented and erudites here in our country that can do beyond espections, but can't be recognised because of lack of money or people, nepotism is killing this country, if this people have money or people to assist them all these things we are rare to see in this country could have been what we are master of.

Kicktaker:
Yet you people cannot conduct a successful airstrike against boko haram...Online NAF

just like the way you don't have sense how would you know....