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unusual facts about Nigerian Air Force


Air Force Military School, Jos, Nigeria

The school is effectively a military institution (part of the Nigerian Air Force) that provides both normal secondary school education and military training to Nigerian boys aged around 11 to 17 years.


Salaudeen Latinwo

Salaudeen Latinwo (born 1943) was part of the first set of people to be recruited into the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in 1963, under the watchful eyes of the first Nigerian Chief of Air Staff, Colonel Gerhard Kahtz (GAF).


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Malmö MFI-9

Von Rosen had the planes painted in camouflage colours and fitted with rockets from Matra, and proceeded with a band of friends to form a squadron called Babies of Biafra to strike at the airfields from which the federal Nigerian Air Force launched their attacks against the civilian population in Biafra.

Shittu

Shittu Alao (born 1937), a Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff