- Nigeria is set to establish an Aviation University to focus on research

- The minister of aviation said the country will join countries producing aircraft

Nigeria is targeting the opportunity to join the list of countries producing air crafts as the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is set to establish an Aviation University.

The Nation reports that Hadi Sirika who is the minister of aviation confirmed this plan when he toured the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) in Zaria, Kaduna State on Saturday, January 7th.

He said: “The aviation university will be different from NCAT; the university will be fully into research and development and production of higher level management manpower need of the industry.

“The university will go into deep research, with the hope that in the near future, we will be able to manufacture aircraft components, until when we are able to produce the aircraft itself.

“Since the technology is available around the world, is no longer a hindrance, it is our own ability and capability to pursue it.”

The minister of aviation noted that Brazil and India have joined aircraft producing countries and that Nigeria can do same too.

He said: “If such countries could do it, why not Nigeria’’.

“The technology is known, we are not reinventing it; we just put our act together in doing it. So, the university will cater for that, while NCAT will continue to provide the services in the institute.”

Sirika said the decentralisation of NCAT by the previous administration would make it difficult for the college to do what it was established to do.

He said: “Remember, it was the UNDP that partnered with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Nigerian government to produce this institution.

“And it is one of its kind, so why are going to reduce its capacity and capability?. Our own task is to improve, enhance and upgrade the capacity and ability of the college to do more.

“But if somebody feels that he has funds to go and establish a facility somewhere to do some kind of training, of course, we will support him.”

Capt. Samuel Caulcrick who is the rector of the college identified funding and obsolete facilities as some of the bane to the development of the institution.


https://www.naij.com/1081403-buhari-administration-establish-aviation-university.html

wow!! Fantablous wonderment!

This will be in d year 9987 I suppose.

Anyway IDGAF!! - emimem.

DonCortino:
wow!! Fantablous wonderment!

This will be in d year 9987 I suppose.

Anyway IDGAF!! - emimem.

Oyee of little faith

The way to go. There must be a specific target period to achieve it.

sarrki:


Oyee of little faith

I gree!

Nice and welcome. As a county we need to invest more in Science and Tech, and Education/Research. But the little we have discovered, what have we done with it.

What have we done with all the Research institutes before now? How have they benefited the common Nigerian? In Nigeria we have companies that can produce APCs for the Police and the Army. If we wanted, we could fabricate guns and even design our own specialized Rifles and Machine Guns. We would rather import an inflate contracts and prices.

How have we been able to engineer products and services that will satisfy the Nigerian and West African Market to start with? Do we have good comparative advantage?

Anyway, time covers but also establishes many things. Let us not complain much.

Ok.. sha do it..darz all i want to see

This country is filled with clowns.

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nawaoo mayb we shud start producing cars then we tink of flying....funny statement if u ask me

Lmao. Well I am an optimist so av got nothing to say........I just hope d plane will be up to standard sha........

Abeg make we produce car finish before venturing into Aircraft. BUT

Wrong direction


The government should rather challenge private citizens , organizations, universities, companies, etc to develop an indigenous aeroplane with an agreement to finance through public private partnership the mass production of their innovations once it meets international standard

Government job is not to sponsor research with its personal money but to recognize & reward research works and connect them to public private investments

Government sponsored research works end up in private pockets unlike private research works.

OmaniPadmeHum:

Nice and welcome. As a county we need to invest more in Science and Tech, and Education/Research. But the little we have discovered, what have we done with it.

What have we done with all the Research institutes before now? How have they benefited the common Nigerian? In Nigeria we have companies that can produce APCs for the Police and the Army. If we wanted, we could fabricate guns and even design our own specialized Rifles and Machine Guns. We would rather import an inflate contracts and prices.

How have we been able to engineer products and services that will satisfy the Nigerian and West African Market to start with? Do we have good comparative advantage?

Anyway, time covers but also establishes many things. Let us not complain much.

BrokenTV:
Abeg make we produce car finish before venturing into Aircraft. BUT

This approach by government is a very wrong approach


Government shouldn't invest public funds into Research and Development = A study done by US government in the early 1900s

Government should rather partner with the private sector to commercialize and industrialize any indigenous technology that is as good as any international similar technology and grant those industries tax incentives and preferential treatment over foreign products.



Innoson car manufacturing plant should be tax exempted or pay half its normal tax in order to help it produce cheaper cars compare to imported cars

A country that can't manufacture bicycle is talking about aircrafts
To make matters worst, the said country is ruled by a dullard

Just like we will be producing pencils by 2018 (according to Ogbonnaya Onu).
Mr Minister, focus on doing your work properly first and then maybe this "dream" of yours will be achieved.

Abeg let's start from Keke. biko

This is just another gimmick of the fulanis to build another major federal institution in the north. We are yet to digest why another College of Petroleum studies should be built in Kaduna when the country already has a Petroleum Training Institute and a Federal University of Petroleum Resources both in Delta state and now this celebration of bigotry from the cow-headed buhari! Why are fulanis like this? And to think that they are not even siting any of these projects in the enclaves of their afonja slaves is also something that terrifies me about these cows.

Just like the Martine schools made Nigeria a ship building country right? This is good step but doesn't address other structural issues in manufacturing process. The obvious being power supply.

Nigerian Navy College of Engineering established 1982

Maritime Academy of Nigeria established 1979.

This announcement is another example of the stupidity and ignorance that afflicts most of Nigeria's political class. It is nonsense to imagine that all there is to creating an aviation industry is announcing the creation of yet another "university", even as the many preexisting universities have undergone decades of under-investment. Where are the computer science facilities for the students in the universities Nigeria already has? Where are the physics and chemistry laboratories? Where are the wind-tunnels and CAD software packages for the engineers? Nigeria has too many bearers of worthless degrees as it is, without adding to the pile with the products of one more "university in name only".

Anyone who has studied the aviation industry will realize that it has massive capital requirements and benefits tremendously from economies of scale, which is why the industry has consolidated down to just Boeing and Airbus, from whom the rest of the world buy their own jets; not even the Chinese and the Japanese can compete in this field on a commercial basis. It would therefore make no sense for Nigerians to attempt getting into the business even if the country had working transport infrastructure and cheap, reliable power.

The very idea that some politician or bureaucrat can simply pick an industry to turn into a winner - let alone the low-IQ ignoramuses that constitute Nigeria's political ignoramuses - is absolutely laughable. These are people who can't even keep the roads and railways functioning properly, and have managed to ruin the flourishing agriculture they inherited at independence, yet they imagine they have what it takes to create a flourishing aviation industry? I don't understand how any of you can take their nonsense seriously!

omohayek:

The very idea that some politician or bureaucrat can simply pick an industry to turn into a winner - let alone the low-IQ ignoramuses that constitute Nigeria's political ignoramuses - is absolutely laughable. These are people who can't even keep the roads and railways functioning properly, and have managed to ruin the flourishing agriculture they inherited at independence, yet they imagine they have what it takes to create a flourishing aviation industry? I don't understand how any of you can take their nonsense seriously!

Lol your replies are alway hilariously witty. I feel people are simply quick to forget.

First of all, Nigeria cannot produce the wheels or tires of an aircraft talkless its engines.

Nigeria MAY assemble some easy parts of it with fake bolts and others to save costs.

God help those unfortunate enough to fly in those coffins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndCnurwdlDg

Need Help To Make My Airplane Fly -- Nigerian Manufacturer

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ChimaAdeoye:
First of all, Nigeria cannot produce the wheels or tires of an aircraft talkless its engines.

Nigeria MAY assemble some easy parts of it with fake bolts and others to save costs.

God help those unfortunate enough to fly in those coffins.

Why do you have doubts about the capacity of Africans to manufacture aircraft ?

MR MAN WAKE UP FROM YOUR DREAM!

Very funny... What is this minister smoking ? I bet if not for the planned closure of the Abuja airport runway that has kicked some sort of life into him , we did not even realise Nigeria had a so- called Aviation Minister. ..he just woke up from his slumber despite the poo in the industry over the last few weeks and wants to start building airplanes....talk of an air head

sarrki:


Oyee of little faith

you can't even produce Keke napep. You wan produce airplanes. With an illiterate President like Buhari? Una dey make me laugh. Afonjas who will God punish on your behalf.

Horus:


Why do you have doubts about the capacity of Africans to manufacture aircraft ?

are you trying to refer to the aircraft in Benin?

i think he should first fix ajaokuta and build some more refineries so that we can have the materials for resaerch and building them (abi we want import the whole aeroplane then couple am? then import fuel take fly am?)

Nigeria can only be on the path of greatness if the government of the day finally fixes the power and steel sectors because these are the two main areas where industrialisation of any country begins.

So any government policies that doesn't include these two areas will mean that they re just joking and on a Merry go round.....

BrokenTV:
Abeg make we produce car finish before venturing into Aircraft. BUT

We don make the pencil finish?