The Nigerian Airforce said on Tuesday that it is according great importance to the girl child education because of the role of women in the development of youths and the nation hence it has embarked on the construction of more NAF Comprehensive Girls Schools across the nation.
Chief of Air staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar who stated this in Abuja, noted that in this light, the Airforce is working to revert the Airforce Comprehensive Girls School in Jos to Airforce Girls Military School.
Speaking when the Airforce Girls Alumni Association of Nigeria AFGAAN visited him and donated cartons of mobile care packs for NAF pilots and troops serving in Operation Lafiya Dole in the North east, Abubakar said the use of girl children by terrorists to detonate bombs in suicide attacks was particularly worrisome to the NAF.
Consequently, he said, “Apart from the Airforce Comprehensive Girls Schools in Lagos and Jos, we have established another NAF Girls Comprehensive School in Abuja. We are also working to establish another NAF Girls Comprehensive school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State.
“We have decided to convert the Comprehensive school in Kaduna to a boarding school to prevent the students having to move long distances to and from the school, thereby reducing dangers on the road and keeping our girls safe.
Continuing the Air Chief said, “We are looking at constructing a NAF Girls Comprehensive School in Maiduguri, Borno State while in Lagos; we have decided to establish another Airforce Comprehensive Secondary School in Shasha to cater from children of our personnel.
Abubakar said a situation where children of officers and airmen had to wake up by 4am every day and struggle for transport to Ikeja, in the tough Lagos traffic was taking its toll on the children, families and the school authorities hence the decision to establish the new Comprehensive secondary school.
He commended the alumni of Airforce Girls Association of Nigeria for their gesture saying they were not only giving back to the organization that helped mold them to who they are today, it showed they appreciated the great sacrifice of the NAF to restore normalcy to trouble spots in the country.
Mrs. Aisha Ugochukwu of the 1990 set disclosed that the alumni presented 450 cartons of care packs to troops serving in the North east “to show our desire to support them with something tangible. They are there fighting under rain, sunshine, day and night”.
The packs contained tooth brushes, tooth pastes, shaving utensils, soaps, creams and some edible stuff which can be taken on the move.
On her part, Vice President of the alumni association, Zainab Gambo said the associated which celebrated her 30 years anniversary has built a relaxation garden at the NAF Comprehensive School Jos as part of giving back, to improve the environment of the school.
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