The Chief of the Air Staff, CAS, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, says the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has so far logged nearly 20,000 flight hours in the course of its operations in the year 2024. Abubakar disclosed this on Thursday in his goodwill message to the officers and airmen of the NAF on the occasion of the Christmas celebration. The …

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, alongside officials from the Ministries of Defence and Finance, participated in a crucial Programme Management Review Meeting in Italy to finalize the acquisition of two squadrons of M-346 fighter aircraft and additional AW109 Trekker helicopters from Leonardo S.p.A. In a statement by the Director of NAF Public Relations, Air …

Nigeria’s 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan has been cleared of her pending whereabouts failure charges by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a few weeks before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Amusan, 27, was charged in July 2023 with missing three anti-doping tests in 12 months but was cleared of the offence by the Disciplinary Tribunal of …

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has set 19 January 2024, as the date for hearing the appeal filed by World Athletics via the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), challenging the first instance decision of the disciplinary tribunal in World Athletics Vs Nigeria and World Record holder in the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan. Earlier, …

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, on Saturday, vowed that the force would be decisive and ruthless in tackling the war against insurgency as well as ridding off criminal elements in the country. According to Abubakar, the era of treating criminal elements terrorising the corporate existence of the country with kid gloves was over. The CAS, who …