It is easy to consider the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in terms of war and combat only. In the last couple of months, the force has shown that it can also win the war against poverty and inhumanity by showing its humane side and helping to lift many out of the dust and on their feet, especially in these trying times when many, faced with the coronavirus, have lost forms of livelihood and cannot feed themselves when they should.
As the nation struggled under the weight of growing COVID-19 cases and many wondered how the nation would cope when faced by the wrath of the quick-spreading virus (especially after the 'ugly' ventilator saga with Elon Musk on Twitter), the NAF quickly moved and, within three weeks, unveiled 2 emergency ventilators produced by a team of researchers from the Air Force Research and Development Centre (AFRDC) and Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Kaduna, in partnership with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and the Department of Megatronics, Federal University of Technology, Minna. The emergency ventilators, tagged 'NAF E-Vents', were unveiled on 27 May, 2020, by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, in Kaduna.
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