The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Kaduna today graduated 249 students in various aerospace engineering and related fields at its 46th Convocation Ceremony.
The graduation ceremony, which held in the Institute’s recently commissioned Ibrahim Alfa Auditorium, witnessed the conferment of diplomas and presentation of certificates to graduating students from the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force and civilians.
In all, there were 11, 109 and 129 Post Graduate Diploma, Higher National Diploma and National Diploma graduands, out of which 122 were civilians.
Speaking at the convocation ceremony, the Minister of Transportation, Right Hon. Chibueke Rotimi Amaechi acknowledged the place of AFIT as a trailblazer in West Africa.
He recalled, with satisfaction, the feat achieved by the Institute in locally designing and manufacturing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, which was successfully test flown, a first in West Africa, among other achievements.
He also congratulated the graduating students, urging them to be worthy ambassadors of AFIT for the benefit of Nigeria.
In addition, he reserved special praises for the various award winners and requested them to live up to expectation in their future endeavours.
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Furthermore, Amaechi praised the visionary and sterling leadership qualities of the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, whose tenure in office has witnessed a lot of infrastructural and academic developments in AFIT.
In his remarks, Air Marshal Abubakar, who is also the Chairman AFIT Governing Council and Visitor to the Institute, enjoined the graduands to be good ambassadors of AFIT.
He noted that their invaluable contributions would be much appreciated in the fast growing and increasing quest for technological advancement in the NAF and in the country at large.
His words “Let me remind the graduating students that the NAF is currently increasing in size, scope of operations and sophistication in the application of technology.
“Based on this development, the knowledge you have gained in the past one or two years would definitely be put to task”.
He further stated that the graduands would be required to speedily develop proficiency and innovate indigenous ways to maintain platforms and improve on equipment serviceability.
Goodwill messages from other academic institutions were delivered to the Institute before guests were invited to visit the Institute’s exhibition stand, which featured products of students’ research efforts.
Olatokumbo Adesanya,
Air Commodore,
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force
