OLAEKAN ADETAYO

Barring any last-minute change in plan, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday hand over some aircraft in the Presidential Air Fleet to the Nigerian Air Force, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

A top Presidency source told our correspondent on condition of anonymity that the handover ceremony would hold at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

Although the source was not forthcoming on the number of aircraft to be handed over to NAF, it was learnt that at least two of such presidential jets would be presented to the air force.

The source said, “I can confirm to you that based on the directive of the president, the commander of the Presidential Air Fleet will hand over some aircraft in the fleet to the Nigeria Air Force on Monday. The handover ceremony will be open to members of the public. President Buhari may be represented at the event by the minister of defence. It will hold at about midday on Monday.”

Out of the 10 aircraft currently in the fleet, only the Boeing Business Jet (Boeing 737-800 or Air Force One), is for the president’s exclusive use.

Others who fly aircraft in the fleet are Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Aisha Buhari; Dolapo Osinbajo; Senate President Bukola Saraki; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; ex-heads of state and top government officials on national assignments on behalf of the president.

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This is commendable. Having 12 presidential jets is an unnecessary waste of resources in this period of recession. A good leader leads by example. Change has truly began with this move by buhari to curb waste. GEJ should have reduced the fleet but he is too corrupt to think in that direction. Some call you a dictator but if dictatorship is what is required to sanitize the system you have the support of sane Nigerians. Invade the home of looters, break their doors and safes with sledge hammers, brutalize them with your DSS and make them pay for short changing the state. We must sanitize the country for the upcoming generations. God bless Buhari for sacrificing his comfort for the masses. We are grateful sir

Observing for now

Are the planes not Nigeria Air Force before?
Are the planes Nigeria Air ways?
This yeye president and mago-mago na 2 finger

patriotic9jaboy:
This is commendable. Having 12 presidential jets is an unnecessary waste of resources in this period of recession. A good leader leads by example. Change has truly began with this move by buhari to curb waste. GEJ should have reduced the fleet but he is too corrupt to think in that direction. God bless Buhari for sacrificing his comfort for the masses. We are grateful sir

bruh iam not a pro-GEJ,but u should ve just left that nicca out of ur comment.



Anyways tiri GBOSA for the president

tit:
Are the planes not Nigeria Air Force before?
Are the planes Nigeria Air ways?
This yeye president and mago-mago na 2 finger

no need for the questions.


the news is just another sip of daily propaganda meant for their zombies


funny how the goat is chasing "corrupt " judges when his sgf is using 270million to cut grass in the sahara and his COS is flexing 500m bribe from mtn

Na presidential fleet not NAF.... imagine Airforce One being Handed to the Democrats

NAF ogas go just fling am........

SELL ALL OF THEM.

I REPEAT, SELL ALL THOSE PLANES.

It's obvious Nigeria can't maintain even one of those aircrafts on yearly basis. What's the essence of dashing some to the NAF which also will be burdened with the cost of maintaining the aircrafts too. Our NAF actually needs fighter jets now and not enjoyment planes.

We are a poor country. Release those planes on Jumia or OLX for sales now.

We'll miss flying.

Good one, and presently, a former 1st Lady of Nigeria (an office with no salary, ) owns a fleet of Airplanes , she has an Aviation company named PEACE AIRLINE! But wailers will never talk about that. God bless PMB.

Buhari can only fool his likes n zombies wit dis nonsence

tit:
Are the planes not Nigeria Air Force before?
Are the planes Nigeria Air ways?
This yeye president and mago-mago na 2 finger

I still no blame you. When you nor know any other way to do things right. When na mago-mago( Special Centre and who know Man.) them take bring you up.

Sale of assets begins with presidential fleet.

tit:
Are the planes not Nigeria Air Force before?
Are the planes Nigeria Air ways?
This yeye president and mago-mago na 2 finger

Too many kids on Nairaland these days

The 10 aircraft in the fleet are:

1× Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 737

1× Gulfstream G550

1× Gulfstream G500

2× Falcon 7X

1× HS 4000

2× Agusta139

2× Agusta 101

PMB will probably be transferring the last 2 Augusta Helicopter to be weaponised and use by the Air force isn't a bad idea unless wailers are still looking for loopholes to wail further.

Paramount Group a RSA company that combines security services and security hardware or systems to arrive at complex solutions did same modification on NAF Augusta Helicopter, and that same helicopter have seen several battles. In fact it was recently used in destroying illegal oil refinery in the ND.

Paramount owns Drakensberg that has partnered with a Nigerian firm to produce the MEKAHOG MRAP for the police.

Some of the Presidential Jets are turbo prop plane with the design of a jet trainer, it can serve as a jet trainer and a COIN platform. It can be used for armed insertion and extraction for SF and troop movement in secure landing zones not primarily as an attack plane.

A Malaysian example of a weaponised Agusta A101 helicopter same with the two pictures above.

divinehand2003:
SELL ALL OF THEM.

I REPEAT, SELL ALL THOSE PLANES.

It's obvious Nigeria can't maintain even one of those aircrafts on yearly basis. What's the essence of dashing some to the NAF which also will be burdened with the cost of maintaining the aircrafts too. Our NAF actually needs fighter jets now and not enjoyment planes.

We are a poor country. Release those planes on Jumia
or OLX for sales now.

I'm not an Aviation expert but I do know that the buying and selling of an aircraft has to pass through a process that's internationally acceptable which is tedious. Now that the sales adverts are out, it then follows that work was going on behind the scene.
We're getting out of the era of waste gradually. Besides, the ones transfered to NAF are going to battle filed.

But the NAF already controls the presidential jets anyway, so what is special here.
Another propaganda in the making.

NafeesaAA:


I'm not an Aviation expert but I do know that the buying and selling of an aircraft has to pass through a process that's internationally acceptable which is tedious. Now that the sales adverts are out, it then follows that work was going on behind the scene.
We're getting out of the era of waste gradually. Besides, the ones transfered to NAF are going to battle filed.

Civilian planes have no business in the battle-field. So you are being deceived as usual.
We have specialized military jets for battle zones and Nigeria does not have many of them, and the few ones you have are very obsolete.

Aircraft and most especially helicopters can be lightly modified to perform combat missions. I gave you a picture of a modified Augusta helicopter above, besides some of these helicopters under the president fleet have the ability to carry external loads and some avionics to support the loads. I do know that such modification would lack features found in military aircraft such as ejection seats.

Toyota hilux is for private or rather non military use, but terrorists and some established military formations have found ways to install triopd on them to carry AA guns, enhance the suspension to support the extra weight.

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CSTR2:
But the NAF already controls the presidential jets anyway, so what is special here.
Another propaganda in the making.

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A man in pains

Asiwaju9ja:


I still no blame you. When you nor know any other way to do things right. When na mago-mago( Special Centre and who know Man.) them take bring you.

You are wicked, walahii...

Sometimes i wonder what Buhari will do to satisfy people

Isn't it the same country's resources that will be spent on running and maintaining these aircraft?

Isn't it the same VIPs that will request for the jet from the armed forces and fly in it?

Why is this govt doing things in a cosmetic way, instead of being real.

The Presidential Air Fleet PAF is managed by the Nigerian Airforce. Abi is Buhari's plane not called Nigerian Airforce One?

Alex Badeh former chief of defence staff was a former commander of the PAF.

Adesola Amosun former chief of Air staff was in the PAF.

Abeg stop telling us lies

The next you will hear is that silly mallam called Garba or the retard looking Femi, saying that the president has fufilled his promise.

Where is GEJ when you need him

Another waste of tax payer money. Why can't they sell the presidential jet and leave two for official assignment? Cost of maintenance in the NAF will be expensive too.

patriotic9jaboy:
This is commendable. Having 12 presidential jets is an unnecessary waste of resources in this period of recession. A good leader leads by example. Change has truly began with this move by buhari to curb waste. GEJ should have reduced the fleet but he is too corrupt to think in that direction. God bless Buhari for sacrificing his comfort for the masses. We are grateful sir

This sarcasm is deep

Pls don't refer to us as 'members of the public ' - we are Nigerians

atleast,he is selling....other presidos were acquiring.

Thumbs up, slayer of afro-isrealite,the people that forbids girl-child from inheriting their father's property

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