The Nile University of Nigeria (NUN) and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation plan to work together to create a curriculum for the projected Pan-African Aviation University.
Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika, revealed this when he led a delegation to Prof. Dilli Dogo, the Vice Chancellor of Nile University on July 25 to advance the negotiations for a collaboration agreement between Nile University and the government-proposed African Aviation & Aerospace University (AAAU). This visit was the second of an earlier delegation led by Captain Gabriel Tilmann in March.
According to the minister, the government specifically chose Nile University for this partnership initiative because it has earned high praise from both the Federal Ministry of Education and the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) for its first-rate facilities and ability to impact world-class knowledge. He continued by saying that the government-sponsored aerospace institution was established to address the shortage of workforce and training gap currently affecting the nation’s civil aviation industry, and the only way to close that gap locally is through partnerships with a critical school like Nile University.
In response, the Vice Chancellor of Nile University Prof. Dilli Dogo said the Institution is committed to working with the Ministry and the government to ensure that the goal of establishing the aviation university to address the nation’s aviation challenges is actualized. The VC went on to say that the institution’s membership in the Honoris United Universities Network, the first and largest pan-African private higher education network, is largely responsible for the high praise it receives today despite its short period of establishment.
