NIGERIA AIR FORCE APPOINTS AIR COMMODORE ADESANYA AS SPOKESMAN

A new Spokesman has been appointed to oversee the image and public relations of the Nigerian Air Force.

The new spokesman and Director of Public Relations and Information, DIPRI is Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya.

He replaces the former Air Force spokesman, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa.


Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, until now  was the pioneer Director of Aircraft Quality Assurance at the Headquarters Nigerian Air Force; a member of Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Regular Course 37 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Air Force as a regular combatant officer on 22 September 1990.

The new DOPRI, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya holds a Masters Degree in Development Studies and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry both obtained from the NDA, Kaduna and also, has a Post Graduate Certificate in Aeromechanical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Kaduna, a Diploma in Computer Engineering and a Certificate of Proficiency in Information Systems Management.

He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) and a Fellow of the Chartered Administrators’ Institute.

Since joining the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Adesanya has attended many military and professional courses, which include the Junior and Senior Staff Courses at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji. He did his course on defence and strategy at the Superior War College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Furthermore, the senior officer has attended several short courses, seminars and workshops within and outside Nigeria. The incumbent DOPRI has served in various units and commands of the Nigerian Air Force.

Adesanya was a Directing Staff at the prestigious AFCSC and the Registrar of the Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna.

In addition, the new DOPRI was the Commander 571 NAF Detachment Ibadan and Deputy Director Air Engineering at Headquarters Nigerian Air Force and he actively participated in Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) Operations in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea from 1997 to 1999.

As a widely exposed senior officer, the new Director of Public Relations and Information has visited over 20 countries across the 5 major continents; he  speaks, reads and writes Yoruba, English, French and Portuguese languages in addition to a working knowledge of Hausa language.

He is happily married and blessed with children.