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Tolulope Arotile Biography - 10 Quick Facts About Nigeria's First Female Military Pilot

She was a young Nigeria female combat helicopter pilot, a feat that thrust her into the national limelight. However, her life was tragically cut short following a freak accident that shouldn’t have happened. Tributes have poured in from all over the country as Nigerians reflect on the exceptional legacy she left at such a young age. No 10. Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile was born on 13th December 1995 in Kaduna State. However, she was from Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. Her parents are known simply as Mr and Mrs Akintude Arotile. No 9. Tolulope Arotile attended Air Force Primary School and Air Force Secondary School in Kaduna. Her family and friends say she had always wanted to be a pilot from childhood. Following the completion of her secondary school education young Tolulope pursued her dream by enrolling at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) as a member of the 64 Regular Course on 22nd September 2012. No 8. Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile was commissioned into the Nigerian Air Force on 16th September 2017. Her commission came after she completed her degree course at the NDA where she obtained a BSc in Mathematics. No 7. Late Tolulope obtained her flying training at Westline Aviation Limited, South Africa. She also received training in the United States and she could handle an attack helicopter as would become evident in her career. Also, according to the Vanguard, she held a commercial pilot license and also underwent tactical flying training on the Agusta 109 Power Attack Helicopter in Italy. No 6. Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile was officially winged as the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Air Force on 15th October 2019. She was 23 years old at the time. By her commission, she achieved a childhood dream of flying a combat plane as her father revealed following her death. However, at the time of her commission, Late Tolulope had explained her motivation for joining the military with the following words: “I joined the military simply out of a passion for it. Being military personnel has been a long-time ambition, the carriage and what it stands for are simply exceptional.” No 5. Late Flying Officer was highly motivated. In an interview she granted ThisDay upon her being winged at NAF Headquarters in Abuja in October 2019, the paper described her passion for flying as “contagious and showed none of the gruelling hours and pain it took to gain her license.” ThisDay also quoted her as saying, “Throughout my training, I have always looked towards flying. The major thing I have come to realise in my field is that there is just no break in my career, you just have to keep pushing and doing your best.” Late Tolulope also had encouraging words for the youth. “My advice to younger ones out there is that they should keep doing their best, they should keep running the race until they finish and they should not set a limit for themselves because the only limit they have is the one they set for themselves,” she had said, according to ThisDay. No 4. Incidentally, Late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile introduced Nigeria’s newly acquired Agusta 109 Power Attack Helicopters to President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, during the induction ceremony at Eagle Square in Abuja on 6th February 2020. The machines were part of military crafts that were commissioned to fight insurgency and banditry especially in the North East and North Central states. No 3. Late Tolulope’s last military assignment was a combat mission against bandits in northern Nigeria. Her father made this known to pressmen who visited the Arotile’s resident to pay condolences. She had just come back from Operation GAMA AIKI in Minna, Niger State, where she was deployed in the fight to rid the North-central states of armed bandits and other criminal elements by flying several combat missions. In one of her most recent operations, according to ThisDay, she was targeted by the bandits who shot repeatedly at her aircraft but the dogged fighter engaged her combat skills and evaded them, while successfully carrying out what she was deployed for. No 2. Late Tolulope died on Tuesday 14 July 2020 in Kaduna at the age of 24. According to a statement released by the Nigerian Air Force, Late Tolulope was “inadvertently hit by a reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force secondary school classmate while trying to greet her.” READ HER FULL BIOGRAPHY HERE -- http://bit.ly/3qfR4au ✩ FOLLOW US ON ALL OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ✩ ✭FACEBOOK - [Sidomex Entertainment](https://bit.ly/sidomexfb) ✭TWITTER - [@sidomex](http://bit.ly/twittube) ✭INSTAGRAM - [@sidomexent](http://bit.ly/sidomexig) ✭[SIDOMEX UNIVERSAL](http://www.sidomexuniversal.com)