N LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has denied that the helicopter carrying Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, which crashed yesterday in Kogi State, was its own. The Air Force also said that crashed aircraft was not from the Presidential Air Fleet, PAF, as erroneously insinuated in some quarters. The force, in a statement…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has discounted reports that the driver of Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), is dead. Badeh was shot by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday night on his way back from his farm. There had been reports that his driver was shot alongside him,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Air Force has confirmed the death of one of the pilots in the two ill fated F-7Ni jets that crashed in Abuja, on Thursday. A statement by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force said “It is with a heavy heart that I regretfully…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Nigerian airman has been killed in an attack on an air force helicopter landing facility in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. The Nigerian Air Force said in a statement that a group of unknown gunmen attacked the guard post in Igbodene in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Sunday. The statement provided little…