By Muhammadu Sabiu
With only 12 days left for the current administration, the Ministry of Aviation once again insisted that the proposed African Aviation and Aerospace University’s academic programmes will start in September 2023.
This comes after the Federal Government and the Nile University of Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start the institution’s academic activities in 2023–2024.
Hadi Sirika, the federal government’s aviation minister, revealed this as he signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Nile University.
The African Aviation and Aerospace University will begin accepting applications for the 2022–2023 academic session on September 26 and run through November 18, according to an announcement made by Sirika last year.
Recall that Sirika had last year announced that the African Aviation and Aerospace University would begin registration for the 2022–2023 academic session on September 26–November 18, 2022.
Signing the MoU on Wednesday in Abuja, the minister said, “The university ought to have happened a long time ago because it is part of our roadmap in 2016 that was approved by the president, and this is just to go straight into research and development in civil aviation and aerospace, and of course environmental sciences.
“This university has received attention all over the world. The first of its kind in Africa and by the grace of God, it would be one of the top universities in the world. I’m also very sure that we may even go into aviation medicine in the near future.
“It is dedicated to those core mandates of aerospace aviation and environmental sciences. It is intended to attend to the huge demands we have in this sub-region of ours and indeed continentally especially as Africa is looking to unite, integrate and become one entity in all fields and human endeavours.”
He added, “I’m happy to say that the academic brief has been developed, the management staff have been employed and of course, it will be governed by the Federal Government but will be owned and operated by the private sector through PPP arrangement.”
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