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Meet Flying Officer Kafayat Sanni, Nigerian Air Force hope after late Tolulope Arotile
With the hope of still having a female combatant pilot in the Nigerian Air Force after the death of young officer Tolulope Arotile whose death touches everyone, Kafayat Sanni stands.
Flying Officer Kafayat Sanni
Flying Officer Kafayat sanni made history on Tuesday, October 15, 2019, when she became the first female fighter pilot in the 55-year-old history of the Nigerian Air Force.
After emerging as the overall best pilot at the NAF 401 Flying Training School, Kaduna State, in 2017, she was sent to the United States of America to train at the US Aviation Leadership Programme.
She is the first to go through regular combat training at the Nigerian Defence Academy to be winged for a fixed wing fighter aircraft.
After the completion of the programme, Sanni was decorated alongside 12 new fighter pilots at the NAF Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday October in 2019.
she got the first female trophy in flying Alpha Jets and others, her colleague, Late Tolulope Arotile, also trained at the Starlite International Training Academy, South Africa for 14 months, to become the first female combat helicopter pilot.
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