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The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has hailed Comrade Isaac Balami for his inaugural successful establishing a backstage specialised university, describing it arsenic a improvement that volition pull much radical to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking astatine the unveiling of the Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Management (IBUAM), Keyamo said the “transfer season” is inactive unfastened for anyone consenting to articulation the APC, urging Balami to instrumentality complaint of governmental mobilisation successful Borno State.
Commending Balami’s vigor and vision, the curate recalled however the young entrepreneur archetypal presented his imagination of an aviation assemblage to him soon aft his assignment arsenic Minister.
“The infinitesimal I was sworn successful arsenic Minister of Aviation, 1 of the archetypal radical who came to my bureau was Isaac Balami. He shared his plans for the aviation sector. I retrieve it was astir his 39th birthday. He told maine helium had conscionable established an MRO successful Lagos and that the Isaac Balami University was connected the way,” Keyamo said.
He expressed astonishment and admiration for Balami’s inaugural astatine specified a young age, adding that helium was inspired to enactment him until the assemblage received approval.
“This is different feather to my headdress arsenic Minister of Aviation. I tin proudly accidental I’ve delivered my ain polling portion successful this sector. This aligns with the imaginativeness of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s medication to enactment the backstage assemblage and beforehand quality superior improvement — 2 cardinal pillars successful our five-point agenda,” Keyamo added.
He described IBUAM arsenic a “revolutionary achievement,” noting that it is the archetypal of its benignant successful Africa by combining a flying school, aviation nonrecreational training, and an craft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) installation nether 1 umbrella.
Also speaking, the subordinate representing Askira Uba Federal Constituency successful the House of Representatives, Hon. Midala Balami, praised the university’s founder, describing him arsenic a awesome of resilience and determination. He said with the unveiling of IBUAM, governmental absorption successful Borno State had been weakened, and the signifier was acceptable for President Tinubu’s triumph successful 2027.
“Congratulations to Isaac Balami for completing 40 to 50 per cent of the run for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” helium said.
In his remarks, Comrade Isaac Balami expressed appreciation to President Tinubu, Keyamo, Seyi Tinubu, Captain Chris Najomo, and others who contributed to the occurrence of the project. He said his determination to stay successful Nigeria and put locally, contempt the ongoing encephalon drain, was driven by his passionateness to lend to nation-building.
Balami recounted his humble beginnings, noting however his parents sold their properties to enactment his education.
“The assemblage is not conscionable different tertiary institution; it is tied to an craft attraction and overhaul installation successful Lagos. Our extremity is to nutrient 21-year-old graduates who tin enactment anyplace successful the satellite without supervision,” helium said.
He called connected authorities governments, ministries, agencies, and governmental leaders to sponsor students connected scholarships, emphasising that profits from the assemblage would beryllium reinvested into the nine done his Foundation.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, announced scholarships for 100 pistillate students consenting to enroll successful the university, noting that empowering young women successful captious sectors aligns with President Tinubu’s imaginativeness for sex inclusion and nationalist growth.
The lawsuit was attended by dignitaries, including the Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Chris Najomo, arsenic good arsenic Senators, imperishable secretaries, and captains of industry.
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