NAF inaugurates Air Force Comprehensive School in Kaduna
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Inauguration
By Yahaya Isah
Abuja, Sept. 16, 2017 (NAN) The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Saturday inaugurated the Air Force Comprehensive School (AFCS), Kaduna State.
The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.
Adesanya explained that the school, which existed as a day secondary school, was recently remodelled, renovated, expanded and upgraded by NAF to a comprehensive School to enhance service delivery.
Speaking at the occasion, Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, said the milestone achievement could not had been possible but for the visionary leadership of the Chief of Air Staff, (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
El-Rufai was represented by the Commissioner of Education Kaduna State, Prof. Andrew Nok.
He commended the CAS for his wonderful and laudable projects in NAF, adding that the great feats so far recorded by the CAS were worthy of emulation.
He added that Kaduna State would indeed benefit from the project, as it would improve the educational standard of children in the state.
The CAS expressed delight on the inauguration of the AFCS, Kaduna State, adding that the conversion of the school from a day school to a boarding school was in preparation for the future.
Abubakar said further that it was in response to the assessment of the present security environment.
According to the CAS, the expansion of the school was part of the NAF’s contribution to solving the girl-child education problem in the country.
“The upgrade carried out in the school include: the building of new structures, provision of digital interactive boards and computers.
“The school was not only converted to a boarding, but was equally expanded to accommodate 720 students as against its previous capacity of 540 students.
“In the past two years, NAF had upgraded the infrastructure in its secondary schools in Uyo, Ibadan, Enugu, Lagos and Jos as a way of repositioning the schools for the challenges of the 21st Century,” he said. (NAN)
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Edited by David Onilede/Felix Ajide
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