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History of The Nigerian Air Force |
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Current Status, Efforts and the Future |
CURRENT STATUS
With the advent of democracy in May 1999, the civilian administration identified
the need to have a robust air force. Thus, it began to make committed efforts at
revitalizing and restoring the Service. This entailed providing funds for
revamping ageing platforms and systems while inducting new ones. The results of
these efforts are gradually becoming visible with the arrival of some of the
reactivated aircraft and the delivery of new ones. Hence, operations have picked
up again and the NAF is on course to regain its glory. Presently, the NAF can
boast of platforms essential for core capabilities.
THE VISION
The thrust of this administration will be consolidation of the gains of my predecessors
by translating all the years of rejuvenation of the fleet into service delivery.
The watchwords will be relevance and justification. This I believe would lead us into focusing
on our mission:
To ensure the integrity of the airspace by gaining and maintaining control of the air
while retaining a credible capacity to fulfill other airpower tasks demanded by national
defence and security imperatives.
The key drivers of the CAS Vision are Mission-oriented Force Development,
Focused Logistics Support for Greater Efficiency and Higher Productivity,
Qualitative Training, Personnel Motivation, Increased Inter-Service Cooperation
and Advocacy. The realization of this Vision would lead to the attainment of the
main objective of the Defence Transformation Programme which is geared towards ensuring
that the Armed Forces of Nigeria ''possess capabilities across the full spectrum of potential
military operations, including the ability to deploy rapidly within the nation, sub-region and
other theatres of operations as may be directed from time to time by the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C)
to enable it execute its constitutional roles efficiently.''
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