The
Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday, announced the redeployment of 58 senior
officials and the establishment of two new commands in a statement by
its spokesperson, Olatokunbo Adesanya.
NIGERIAN AIR FORCE ESTABLISHES NEW BRANCH AND COMMANDS, REDEPLOYS SENIOR OFFICERS
As part of restructuring efforts by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to
enhance the effective and efficient projection of air power, 2 new
Commands and a Branch have been established. The 2 new Commands
established are the Air Training Command (ATC) with Headquarters in
Kaduna and Ground Training Command (GTC) with Headquarters in Enugu.
These new commands were excised from the now defunct Training
Command (TC) thereby bringing the total number of Commands in the NAF to
6. The ATC will be responsible for the implementation of policies on
flying and air operations while the GTC will be responsible for the
implementation of local ground training.
The newly established Branch is known as Communications Branch. The
Branch was unbundled from the former Logistics and Communications
Branch which brings the number of NAF branches to 10. The new Branch
would handle all the needs of the NAF, with regards to communications,
electronics, radar maintenance, Information and Space Technology.
Sequel to this development, the NAF has redeployed a total of 58
officers comprising 25 Air Vice Marshals (AVM), 20 Air Commodores, 5
Group Captains, one Wing Commander, 4 Squadron Leaders, 2 Flight
Lieutenants and one Flying Officer. Among those posted to Defence
Headquarters are AVMs Wakili Ahmed, Defence Policy and Plans; Ibrahim
Umaru, Director Safety and Manual; Benjamin Nweze, Director,
Civil-Military Relations; Eche Agwungwu, Director Space; Bernard Chiobi,
Director of Operations and Onyemaechi Osahor, Director General Defence
Research Production Bureau.
Senior Officers posted within HQ NAF include AVMs Nurudeen Balogun
who is now Chief of Training and Operations; Muhammadu Muhammed, Chief
of Policy and Plans; Charles Otegbade, Director of Plans; Olusoji
Awomodu, Director of Museum and Archives; Sani Ahmed, Director of
Policy; Muhammad Abdul-Wahab, Air Secretary; Kingsley Lar, Chief of
Standards and Evaluation; Napoleon Bali, Director of Training; Christian
Dii, Managing Director Aircraft Engineering and Technical Services
Limited; Abdulganiyu Olabisi, Chief of Aircraft Engineering; Charles
Oghomwen, Chief of Communications, Cletus Udeagulu, Director Research
and Development and Paul Dimfwina, Director of Evaluation. Similarly,
the newly appointed Air Officers Commanding are AVMs Samson Akpasa,
Ground Training Command, Enugu; Saddiq Kaita, Special Operations
Command, Bauchi; and Mohammed Idris, Tactical Air Command, Makurdi.
OLATOKUNBO ADESANYA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations & Information.
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