{"id":65877,"date":"2025-05-17T04:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65877"},"modified":"2025-05-17T04:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:24:26","slug":"tinubu-boosts-air-power-with-new-choppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/17\/tinubu-boosts-air-power-with-new-choppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Boosts Air Power with New Choppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu, represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, has commissioned two Augusta 109 S Trekker helicopters into the Nigerian Air Force fleet, reinforcing the country\u2019s aerial defense capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The induction ceremony held at the Presidential Air Force Hangar, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, marks a fresh boost to the Air Force\u2019s tactical strength in tackling nationwide security threats.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a strategic milestone, the addition of the advanced helicopters is expected to sharpen the Force\u2019s rapid response and combat readiness.<\/p>\n<p>It also reflects the Tinubu administration\u2019s drive to modernize military assets for better national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this move, we are equipping our armed forces to meet today\u2019s challenges head on,\u201d Shettima said, affirming government\u2019s resolve to protect the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke President Bola Tinubu, represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, has commissioned two Augusta 109 S Trekker helicopters into the Nigerian Air Force fleet, reinforcing the country\u2019s aerial defense capacity. The induction ceremony held at the Presidential Air Force Hangar, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, marks a fresh boost to the Air Force\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65879,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877\/revisions\/65879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}