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By Sunday Ani
The Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Uche Ugwu, has endorsed the 2025 South East aviation summit by the Eastwing Aviation Institute (EAI), Enugu.
Ugwu gave the endorsement when the management of the institute visited him in his office for the summit that will be held in August. He pledged his support for the summit and charged the school to intensify its awareness creation for the institute. He stressed that most people in the South East were still unaware of the school.
“I will use whatever that is in my capacity to support the summit, including speaking with my other colleagues to key into it.
“But on your own, there is a need to create awareness about this as our people patronise only the courses they know, like medicine, law, nursing and other courses,” Ugwu advised.
Earlier, the Provost of the Institute, Dr Abioye Babalola, said the visit was to inform the speaker about the summit.
He said 100 South East youths would be trained on various skills and opportunities in aviation that would make them self-reliant.
He lamented that most students of the institute were from the South West and South South, stressing the need for youth of the South East to key into the sector. He explained that the school was founded in 2013 and had since obtained necessary approval from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
“We also offer courses on flight dispatcher, cabin crew, ramp safety procedure, aeronautic store management, airline quality assurance and airline ticketing, among others.
“The institute single handedly trained over 100 aviation personnels in different aviation trades for the take-off of the airport in Awka, Anambra State.
“We also approached the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Kaduna, to upgrade some of our courses to National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND), which approval had been given since 2023,” he said.
He explained that their graduates compete favourably with their counterparts trained abroad and in other aviation institutes in Nigeria.
“This is why we came to see you to support this summit,” he said.
