On today’s Cover, he Nigerian Airforce (NAF) produced locally-made ventilators as its contribution to national efforts towards fighting coronvirus. The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal (AM) Sadique Abubakar, announced this during Eid-el-Fitri lunch with troops of the Air Component of “Operation Lafiya Dole” at the Airforce Base in Maiduguri on yesterday.
Abubakar said that the locally-made ventilator was a product of research development programme by the Nigerian Airforce in partnership with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The innovation has received praises on social media and it’s commendable how this special forces are battling insecurity and also contributing to the fight against coronavirus in their own way.
Kudos to the CAS and the Nigerian Air Force for producing this locally-made ventilator in the fight to deal with Covid-19.