… Establish joint research team
… LASU students now to enjoy SIWES placements at NAF formations
The Nigeria Airforce has renewed its landmark collaboration with Lagos State University on areas of mutual interest, including staff exchange, organisation and execution of joint projects, and research, as well as the organisation of joint conferences.
The collaboration, which was signed between the university and the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces in 2013, renewed in 2018 and expired in 2023 until Tuesday, 22nd October 2024, when the LASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, mni, NPOM, and the leadership of the Faculty of Engineering of the university, visited Nigeria’s Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Hasan Bala Abubakar, at his office in Abuja.
During the highly productive meeting, the Vice-Chancellor sought the renewal of the mutually beneficial Memorandum of Understanding while proposing the establishment of a Joint Research Team (comprising LASU Research Team and the Research and Development Team of the Nigeria Air Force) to proffer possible solutions to some of the salient aircraft problems faced in the course of operations and management in particular, and other real-life problems facing the nation.
The LASU boss equally requested for SIWES placement for Aerospace Engineering students of the university in all the formations of NAF across Nigeria, as well as the donation for a decommissioned ABT 18 Aircraft for practical training for the students.
The CAS, in his response, approved all the requests to mark a new chapter in the relationship between LASU and NAF. To the delight of the team, Air Marshal Abubakar also pledged NAF’s commitment to the execution of all the agreements, which would take effect immediately.
The partnership is expected to further bolster LASU’s position to contribute meaningfully to national development through the NAF while enhancing the teaching and learning experience for staff and students.
The meeting was sealed with the exchange of gifts and group photographs. Head, Epe Campus, Prof. Elkanah Oyetunji; Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Nurudeen Raji and Personal Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor, Mrs Fatimah Ogunniyi, joined the Vice-Chancellor at the meeting.