NAF War College graduates students

The Nigerian Air Force Air War College (NAFAWC) has graduated it’s second set of participants of its Air War Course 2/2017, at the NAF Base, Makurdi.
Nineteen senior military officers, consisting of 16 from the NAF, one from the Nigerian Army (NA) and two from the Nigerian Navy (NN) participated in the course.
The Course, which was inaugurated on 16 June 2017, groomed the participants in airpower education and its application while preparing them to lead in the strategic environment with emphasis on the employment of airpower in both joint and independent operations, according to NAF spokesperson, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya in a statement.
He said the Chief of the Air staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, represented by the Chief of Training and Operations, Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Nurudeen Balogun, urged the graduants to bring to bear, the skills and lessons acquired during the Course with utmost sense of patriotism.
He said the Air chief said that NAF had improved, expanded and upgraded the facilities in the College to the standards obtainable in similar air war colleges worldwide to aid teaching and learning, adding that NAF would continue ‘to do its best within the limits of available resources to provide the needed support for realistic and result oriented training.”
According to Adesanya Abubakar also said that the NAF would continue to place premium on capacity building as well as effective and efficient service delivery of its officer and men, and “expressed his belief that the purpose for which the College was established would begin to have the desired level of impact on the Service in the very near future.”
The NAF spokesperson also quoted the Commandant of the College, AVM James Baba, as saying that the graduation of the second set of participants was an attestation to the rationale behind the establishment of the College.
“The Commandant added that the feedback being received by the College on the performance of its pioneer graduands was pleasing, as they were in line with the College’s set objectives,” he said.
Adesanya said the attendance of Air War Course 2 by participants from the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy was “in keeping with the tradition from when the NAFAWC was established towards deepening the collaboration between the three arms of Services in the Armed Forces of Nigeria.”

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