{"id":77238,"date":"2025-10-23T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77238"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:58:04","slug":"18-year-old-mohammed-sani-becomes-nigerias-youngest-commercial-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/18-year-old-mohammed-sani-becomes-nigerias-youngest-commercial-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"18-Year-Old Mohammed Sani Becomes Nigeria\u2019s Youngest Commercial Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old Nigerian, Mohammed Aminu Sani, has made history as the country\u2019s youngest commercial pilot after earning a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Commercial Multi-Engine Pilot License.<\/p>\n<p>Sani completed a 10-month intensive training at Phoenix East Aviation in Daytona Beach, Florida, without a single check ride failure, a rare feat that earned him praise from his instructors.<\/p>\n<p>His achievement has been widely celebrated in Nigeria, with many describing it as a testament to the talent and determination of the nation\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>Sani\u2019s success adds to Nigeria\u2019s growing reputation in global aviation and serves as an inspiration to aspiring young pilots across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado An 18-year-old Nigerian, Mohammed Aminu Sani, has made history as the country\u2019s youngest commercial pilot after earning a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Commercial Multi-Engine Pilot License. Sani completed a 10-month intensive training at Phoenix East Aviation in Daytona Beach, Florida, without a single check ride failure, a rare feat that earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77238","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=77238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77240,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77238\/revisions\/77240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}