Nigeria’s First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot Dies At 25

Nigerian Air Force’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, has died in a road accident.

SaharaReporters gathered that Arotile sustained head injuries from a road accident which occurred at the NAF Base in Kaduna on Tuesday.

She made history on October 15, 2019, when she was commissioned as the first combat helicopter pilot in the Air Force following the completion of her course at the Starlite International Training Academy, South Africa.