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Enugu gets Helicopter school
By Oamen Areguamen
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Abuja—Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has approved the establishment of an international Helicopter school in Enugu.

It has also endorsed the issuance of approved Training Organisation, ATO, for the Nigerian Air Force existing training institution.


Director General of the NCAA, Dr. Harold Demuren, gave the approval when a team of Nigeria Air Force officers, led by Air Vice Marshal M.D. Umar, paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

Umar, the Air Officer Commanding Nigerian Airforce Training Command, Kaduna, said the NCAA approval would help the training institute to train both officers and civilians for private pilot licences, commercial licences, ATC, and air maintenance engineers.
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AVM Umar said the Nigeria Air Force was not alone in this project, as it was partnering with an Aeronautical Engineering School in the US and also with some local partners.


Zinox set to implement Wifi project in Enugu
By Emeka Aginam
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The Enugu Coal city and its environs will now be part of the 21st centuary knowledge economy as Zinox Telcoms is set to upgrade the Coal city with Wifi project following a buyout of the Enugu state Government in the Joint Venture.





CES1: US Computer Electronics Association (CEA) L-R: President, Gary Shapiro, ITAN President, Jimson Olufuye and Ola Akinyemi, ITAN NEC member at the just concluded Computers and Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA




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Zinox telecoms, was launched two years ago with a mandate to cost effectively connect the next 30m unnerved Nigerians in rural areas to the global knowledge domain.


With this initiative, Zinox has kept its commitment that it was willing to buy out the state government’s 80% in the JVA by paying over N140m.


By this acquisition, Zinox is now responsible for the implementation of the Coalcity-Wifi in support of the vision of the Enugu State Government.


The Chief Operating Officer of Zinox Telecomms, Engr. Theophilus Nweke who satted this in a statement noted that at the moment, the network has been demobilized to enable the Management of Zinox telecoms do a system capacity and inventory audit and re-strategize on how best to run the network in a capital city with few major industries.


‘We want to make sure that at the end of the day that we do not totally compromise the social responsibility minded intentions with which we launched the partnership even though we have bought out the Enugu state Government’ he said.


This network, according to him, remains the fastest network in Enugu, adding that Zinox would upgrade the network systematically on the basis of supply and demand, and generally ensure that the Coalcity Wifi offers the best platform to those living in the capital city.


Nweke said that he would have to resubmit a fresh proposal to the Board to enable her take decisions on how best to build a customer base that is not purely commercial driven as initially agreed with the state government, without compromising quality.


’We are concerned more with how the geniuses from poor families in Enugu like any other city shall have global access at N10,000 per annum in order to facilitate Enugu as the knowledge Hub of the South East’ he added.


Zinox Telecoms, which pioneered Super Wifi in Africa in support of her parent company’s – Zinox Technologies’ promotion of Knowledge Democracy in Nigeria, entered a joint venture with Enugu state government but the partnership could not inject more capital to meet with a sudden surge in the demand for connectivity in the city and this led to a disagreement and Zinox offered to buy out the state government which owned 80% of the JVA in order to have the flexibility to operate the network.

Helicopter school

Wifi in Enugu;about time to improve on the already existing one.

asha 80:

Helicopter school

What is wrong with it?

How does Enugu getting a Helicopter School help Nigeria's crawling economy?

mama-gee:

How does Enugu getting a Helicopter School help Nigeria's crawling economy?

Billions of naira 'take flight' overseas for training the crop of helicopter pilots we have now. That money will 'sit at home' and be used for some other thing.

^^This one is excuse upon excuses, Nigeria needs to be uplifted
Not rejoicing over the latest Helipcopter school.

^^^^^^
I am tired of Yaradua, Farouk and all that bad stuff. Something uplifting for a change

I would rather they setup a yoruba language school which i am sure would be more meaningful than a freaking helicopter school

Mekusxyz:

^^^^^^
I am tired of Yaradua, Farouk and all that bad stuff. Something uplifting for a change

Exactly! my point.

ah ah igbo kwenu make dem free igbos of this mondage in Nigeria.

Igbo presido for 2015 lmfao

@ topic

in preparation for the next war or what?

^^^^

monkeytpia

ikeyman00:

^^^^

monkeytpia

check here:


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-380843.0.html

na me dem send you follow for nairaland abi?



let me wait for you.

Nigerian Air Force, NCAA in Talks over Training School
From Imam Imam in Kaduna, 01.16.2010

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Kaduna

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has concluded plans to establish an international training school which is expected to serve Nigeria and other West African countries.


The institute, expected to be sited at NAF's 305 Flying Training School Enugu, will provide adequate flying knowledge of helicopters to Nigerians thereby reducing the dominance of foreign pilots being faced in the country.


Documents obtained by THISDAY in Kaduna revealed that the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, has set up a high powered committee, headed by the Head of Airforce Training Command, AVM Muhammed Dikko Umar, to commence discussions with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on the modalities to grant the school operating license.


Receiving the delegation when they paid him a courtesy call in Lagos, NCAA Director General, Dr. Harold Demuren, assured that all support will be rendered towards the actualisation of the objectives.
He said that most helicopter pilots in Nigeria are foreigners, but said with the planned establishment of the training school, jobs would be created for qualified Nigerians.


He said when established, the school would also assist Nigerian oil industry with indigenous helicopter pilots.
On the issue of accreditation of courses at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Demuren said all outstanding matter would be resolved before the end of March this year, since according to him, an NCAA assessment team that visited the institution recently has submitted a favourable report on the outcome of its inspection.


In his remark, AVM Umar said so far, an aircraft hanger and shelter facilities to cater for six helicopters have been constructed while accommodations for a few number of trainees are ready, while fire prevention facilities at the training site are also active.