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The remains of Nigeria’s First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, were this morning laid to rest at the military cemetery on Airport Road, Abuja.
Her body was conveyed in an ambulance belonging to the Nigerian Air Force with registration number AF 442.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique; Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello and his wife; the House Committee Chairman on Air Force, Bala Ib’n Nalla and the family members of the deceased were among those that witnessed the ceremony.
Arotile reportedly died from a road traffic accident at the NAF base in Kaduna State, last week Tuesday.
The air force authorities said the female officer sustained head injuries from the accident when she was “inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force secondary school classmate while trying to greet her.”
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