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Abubakar disclosed this on Tuesday in Jos, Plateau State at the inauguration of 30-room transit accommodation for airmen/airwomen.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the building is a six by three bedroom flat for officers at the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who inaugurated the “Reference Hospital” at the 115 Special Operations Group, Nigerian Air Force Base in Port Harcourt, said that the hospital would serve as a reference point for delivery of medical services for personnel and residents in the area.
Sadiq told newsmen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, that several air raids were conducted under the Operation Ruwan Wuta II, designed as a final onslaught on the insurgents.
Abubakar said this in Yola while inaugurating the newly completed residential blocks at Yola Air Force Base.
According to Abubakar, the import of this key driver “is to increase self-sufficiency, reduce dependence on foreign organizations for maintenance of military hardware and saving of foreign exchange for Nigeria”.
Abubakar said this in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at a skills acquisition and vocational training graduation ceremony for 150 youths.
The Nigerian Navy, since the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari, has proven itself in the Niger Delta, where working closely with the Nigerian Army, it has taught militants that sabotaging economic assets is not a pastime to relish in. Even when the military operations against Boko Haram are mostly affairs in the dry Sahara Desert, the Navy ensured lake Chad is not of any benefit for the terrorists with the constant destruction of any vessel the terrorists attempt to deploy on the lake.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, stated this at a feast organized for officers and men of the service at the 105 Composite Group, Maiduguri.
The Air Officer Commanding of the GTC, Enugu, Air Vice Marshal Samson Akpasa, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Saturday
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said this in an address of welcome at NAF 2017 Directorate of Public Relations and Information conference in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the free treatment was part of activities by the force to end the African Partnership Flight, which held from August 14 to 18.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Chad, Niger and Benin Republic participated in the US-backed APF, a multilateral military-to-military engagement designed to boost African cooperation in aviation.
He urged them to see their promotion as an outcome of the confidence NAF reposed in them, especially as they were not the only ones that went through a rigorous selection exercise.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who inaugurated the exercise on Thursday in Bakassi, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River, stated that the exercise was in line with the NAF humanitarian service for the people.
He said that in 2014 and 2015 NAF used to procure its equipment and materials through a NAF Tenders Board, a procurement which was hitherto adjudged not being sufficiently transparent enough and not in consonance with global best practices.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Yola, Adamawa State, Abubakar said that NAF had already received some, including helicopters and had repaired 12 aircraft.
Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, made the disclosure on Saturday in Abuja in a statement issued to newsmen.
As much as practicable, Abubakar said the NAF now carries out major maintenance on its aircraft locally, either in conjunction with local companies or by inviting foreign experts to come and carry out the reactivation in Nigeria.