Nigeria has resources to become aviation hub – AVM Suleh

Air Vice Marshal A. A. Suleh, Air Officer Commanding of the Nigerian Air Force Logistics Command, has stated that Nigeria possesses the cardinal ingredients needed to go a starring aviation and aerospace hub successful Africa.

Speaking astatine the International Conference Fellowship Conferment organized by the Institute of Nigerian Aeronautical Engineers (INAE) successful Lagos, helium noted that the country’s ample population, strategical location, skilled workforce, aviation institutions, and progressive backstage assemblage supply a beardown instauration for growth.

According to Suleh, “the situation is not a deficiency of imaginable but the inability to construe these advantages into sustainable economical and concern occurrence done accordant policies, semipermanent planning, and disciplined execution”.

He identified respective obstacles slowing the industry’s progress, including dependence connected overseas maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facilities, constricted entree to certified spare parts and specialized tools, precocious overseas speech costs for craft acquisition and maintenance, aging infrastructure, and insufficient section accumulation of aviation components.

He besides highlighted the disconnect betwixt world grooming and the applicable needs of the aviation industry.

Suleh emphasized that immoderate locally produced aviation constituent indispensable m...