NIGERIAN AIR FORCE PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Given the growing number of officers and airmen, as well as the frequent posting of NAF members to different areas at different periods, the need to create and administer schools for children of Service personnel became clear. As a result, a policy directive was issued requiring all major NAF formations to build NAF primary schools.
Air Force Primary School (AFPS) Ikeja, the NAF’s first primary school, opened in 1976 on Isaac John Street, GRA, Ikeja. The headteacher is the name given to the principal of a primary school. Two associate headteachers and three supervisors assisted the headteacher. Mrs GC Ojo was the first headteacher of AFPS Ikeja. Later, schools in Lagos, Kaduna, Makurdi, and Kano were founded.
LIST OF NIGERIAN AIR FORCE PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Since then, further elementary (Primary) schools have opened, resulting in the NAF now having 20 primary schools across the country, as listed below:
1. Air Force Primary School 1 Ikeja, Lagos
2. Air Force Primary School Victoria Island
3. Air Force Primary School Enugu, Enugu State
4. Air Force Primary School Kaduna, Kaduna
5. Air Force Primary School Kano, Kano State
6. Air Force Primary School Markurdi, Benue
7. Air Force Primary School Benin, Edo State
8. Air Force Primary School Jos, Plateau State
9. Air Force Primary School Port Harcourt, River State
10. Air Force Primary School Kainji, Niger State
11. Air Force Primary School Ilorin, Kwara State
12. Air Force Primary School 2 Ikeja, Lagos State
13. Air Force Primary School 3 Ikeja, Lagos State
14. Air Force Primary School Yola, Adamawa State
15. Air Force Primary School Ibadan, Oyo State
16. Air Force Primary School Maiduguri, Borno State
17. Air Force Primary School Shasha, Lagos State
18. Air Force Primary School 2 Kaduna, Kaduna State
19. Air Force Primary School Ipetu Ijesha, Osun State
20. Air Force Primary School Bauchi, Bauchi State
21. Air Force Primary School Minna, Niger State
Specific Duties of the Directorate of Education (DOEDN)
The DOEDN also provides guidance on educational components of service training, as well as an educational organization, institution, and personnel. The Directorate of Education has the following responsibilities:
a. Maintaining contact with the Nigerian Army, Navy, government departments, and other professional/educational organizations.
b. Assessing soldiers and civilians’ academic and professional potential at the time of their recruitment in the NAF.
c. Providing advice on personnel’s suitability for appropriate NAF/Non-NAF Education Sponsorship.
d. Keeping track of NAF personnel’s progress at academic institutions.
e. Organizing Training Days through the Command Education Officers (CEOs) at Command level and Base Education Officers (BEOs) at the unit level.
f. Curriculum planning and development at NAF training schools.
g. Providing Academic teachers for NAF training institutions such as the Ground Training Centre (GTC), the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and the Flying Schools.
h. Provides Staff officers for the Directorate of Manuals, the Directorate of Archives and Museums, the Directorate of Training and Operations, and the Directorate of Recruitment, Resettlement, and Rehabilitation.
i. Using the BEOs to run Guidance and Counseling Centers in all NAF units.
j. Providing library facilities to all ranks in units.
k. Overseeing and administrating all NAF Libraries.
l. Managing the NAF’s Secondary and Primary Schools in a professional manner. m. Any other duties that the Chief of Administration (COA) may assign from time to time.
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