Air Force War College Graduates 29 Officers

Nigerian Air Force War College has graduated 29 officers and charged them to use the cognition and skills they acquired to supply originative and innovative solutions to the country’s information challenges.

The curate of Defence Mohammed Abubakar who made this known during the graduation of the Air War Course 11/2025, said the assemblage is simply a citadel of training, operational art, captious thinking, and pragmatic frameworks for subject decision-making processes, which volition heighten the occurrence of operational plans and make a civilization of proactiveness successful subject engagements.

According to him, “The instauration was established to bid operational level subject leaders, who volition lend towards fulfilling the law roles of the Nigerian Air Force and the Armed Forces arsenic a whole.”

Represented by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa said, helium said, “I judge your graduation has travel astatine a clip erstwhile caller ideas are needed to code our nation’s information challenges. You volition beryllium required to bring to carnivore the knowledge, skills, and cognition you person acquired to proffer originative solutions to these challenges.

“It is nary uncertainty that the Nigerian Air Force would necessitate dependable minds to comply with champion planetary practices successful warfare conduct, particularly successful asymmetric warfare, successful which the Armed Forces of Nigeria are presently employed.”

While commending the enactment benignant and committedness of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which has equipped the Nigerian Air Force with the indispensable platforms and resources to conscionable the nation’s information challenges the curate besides applauded the commandant, module and unit of the assemblage for their dedication and hard enactment successful shaping the minds of these graduands, saying “ I americium assured that your efforts volition not beryllium successful vain.”

On his part, the Chief of Air Staff Air Marshall Bala Abubakar who commended the commandant and the graduands said, “I americium optimistic that having gone done the rigours of the grooming for the past 9 months, you person been equipped with the capableness to efficaciously employment airpower successful the modern and aboriginal information environments.”

According to him, “My doctrine arsenic the Chief of the Air Staff is to alteration the Nigerian Air Force into an agile and resilient unit that efficaciously meets the airpower demands of nationalist information successful each operational environments.

“ And 1 of the cardinal enablers of this doctrine is “Deliberate grooming and mission-oriented unit development. Thus, today’s graduation is accordant with the concerted efforts to actualise my vision. I americium truthful pleased to beryllium present connected this peculiar occasion.

“It is heartwarming to enactment that the College has since began to pull wider patronage arsenic among the 29 graduands contiguous are 2 Cameroonian officers, 2 Batswana serviceman and 1 Moroccan serviceman arsenic good arsenic 2 each from the Nigerian Army and Navy. Additionally, support has been fixed for participants from 5 much countries to articulation the adjacent course,” CAS added.

In a invited address, the Commandant of Air War College, Babatunde Phillips, described the graduation arsenic 9 months of intelligence rigour, nonrecreational dedication, and the forging of enactment capableness that volition signifier the aboriginal of the Nigerian Armed Forces and participating allied countries.

According to him, “The Air Force War College stands arsenic a citadel of precocious learning, wherever officers are transformed from tacticians to strategists, from leaders of units to leaders of thought, prepared to code the dynamic information challenges of our federation and beyond.”

He said, “The travel of Air War Course 11/2025 began connected 17 January 2025, with a distinguished cohort of 29 officers. These included participants from the Nigerian Armed Forces, sister institutions specified arsenic the National Defence College, Abuja, and planetary officers from Botswana, Cameroon, and Morocco. This deliberate premix reflects our enduring committedness to fostering determination integration and multinational collaboration.”

Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, represented by Deputy Governor Sam Ode, said the Nigerian Airforce has go a citadel of professionalism successful each ramifications, which has been demonstrated by the changeless grooming of its unit to lucifer the planetary standards of operations.

While commending them for the zeal successful the combat against insecurity crossed the country, which has brought comparative peace, the politician said with the training, the unit volition strategise connected innovative ways to combat insecurity successful the country.