By Business A.M.

• Five pilots graduates in Ilorin

The management of International Aviation College, Ilorin has appealed to Governor AbdulRahman Abdulrasaq of Kwara State to come to the aid of the college to remain in operation.

The college said there was the need for adequate funding of the college to prevent it from being shut by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

Acting rector of the college, Yakubu Okatahi, a captain, stated this when the governor paid an official visit to the college where he decorated five graduating students who have completed their commercial and private pilot licence courses.

Okatahi and other officials of the college commended the governor for the regular subvention to the college which has enabled the school to remain in operation.

He said the governor’s recent release of N75 million enabled the college to purchase new aircraft engine and propeller, 10,000 litres of jet-A1, and repair of the college’s fuel dump, among others.

The rector, however, appealed to the governor for increased funding of the college to enable it meet all the requirements stipulated by the regulatory authority.

Okatahi told the governor that the present management inherited 55 students when it came on board in March, 2022 and said 27 of them had so far been graduated.

He said the College can do better with sufficient funding by the State Government.

He, however, assured the governor that the current management would not disappoint the state government for the trust and confidence reposed in it.