Tolulope made history in October 2019, when she was winged as Nigeria's first female combat helicopter pilot.............
LATE FLYING OFFICER TOLULOPE OLUWATOYIN SARAH AROTILE - . [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Air Force]While the motive for joining the military by some is to wriggle out of the burden of unemployment, for Tolulope Arotile, it was simply a passion she had fanned from childhood.
“I joined the military simply out of passion for it. Being a military personnel has been a long term ambition for me,” she said in an interview shared by the Nigerian Air Force.Not that she had no other qualifications to chase other job opportunities as she had a degree in mathematics. But for her, being in the military was all she craved.
The native of Iffe area of Ijumu LGA of Kogi State and fourth child of her family attended the Air Force Primary and Secondary Schools , Kaduna. “While one of the two pilots is the first female fighter pilot in the 55 years history of the NAF, the second one is the first female combat helicopter pilot,” air chief Sadique Abubakar said at the October event.
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