On Monday, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, appointed Air Vice Marshal Hassan Abubakar as the 22nd Chief of Air Staff.
Abubakar was born on September 11, 1970, and according to his profile, which was made public by the NAF Headquarters, he is a native of Kano State’s Shanono Local Government Area.
He joined the Nigerian Air Force on September 19, 1992, after graduating from the Nigerian Defence Academy’s Regular Course 39.
Abubakar has taken a number of courses, including ab-initio and basic flying training courses at the Nigerian Army Infantry Centre and School, Jaji, and basic and advance airborne courses at the former 301 Flying Training School, Kaduna.
He also attended the Company Amphibious Operations Course at the Nigerian Army Infantry Centre and School, Calabar.
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Others include Junior and Senior Command and Staff Courses at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, and the National Defence Course at the Nasser Higher Military Academy, Cairo, Egypt.
Previous appointments held by the new CAS included Officer Commanding ‘B’ Squadron (Do 228), 81 Air Maritime Group NAF Benin; Team Leader MILOB Team Site 615 Mahagi (Ituri Brigade), United Nations Organisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC); and Aviation Planning Officer, MONUC Air Operations Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
He was Commanding Officer, Base Services Wing 81 Air Maritime Group, Benin, and later served at different times at the 88 Military Airlift Group, Ikeja, where he held various appointments, including Operations Officer, Operational Conversion Unit; Operations Officer, Commanding Officer, 21 Wing, and Group Safety Officer.
He was Fleet Operation Officer 011 Presidential Air Fleet, and thereafter Commandant of the Unit.
His other appointments included Chief of Staff, Mobility Command, Yenagoa; Air Officer Commanding Logistics Command, Ikeja, as well as Director of Policy and Director of Operations, both at the Headquarters Nigerian Air Force, Abuja.
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