Nigeria’s First Female Combatant Pilot, Tolulope Arotile Is Dead
July 15, 2020
4:26 am
Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, has passed away.
Arotile died at the age of 23 after sustaining head injuries from a road traffic accident at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in Kaduna.
She died less than a year after she was decorated as the first female combatant helicopter pilot.
Confirming the news, Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said the flight officer died on Tuesday.
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He described Arotile’s death as an “irreparable loss”.
…He said, “It is with great sorrow that the Nigerian
