IBUAM: For Aeronautics and Aviation Management

IBUAM: For Aeronautics and Aviation Management

By: Balami Lazarus

The comments/reactions of some readers to my recent work on Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Management (IBUAM) Lagos were a mixed grill. And this made me respond and inform them through this work.

And that the title alone will tell them and other readers that the institution is of university standard allowed by law through the university regulatory body, the National Universities Commission (NUC), to run courses accredited like any other duly approved university academic program.

From the name itself, and if you mentally removed Isaac Balami, what you are left with is University of Aeronautics and Management. IBUAM is Africa’s first private aeronautics university, where young people are intellectually trained in the science of aeronautics engineering, aviation management, and operations to contribute their quota to nation building through the aviation industry, which is more privately driven.

Nigerian School of Aviation Technology Zaria (NSAT) is the only institution in Nigeria established and licensed to train future pilots on the techniques of practical flying. And the school does not have the status of a university, unlike IBUAM.

I have not, and I am yet to set my eyes on any course that has to do with flying offered at IBUAM Lagos. However, my findings revealed that “it does provide pilot training… equipping students with practical skills in aircraft maintenance, repairs, and operations.”

The Nigerian aviation sector is a money-minting industry that has dual economic benefits—air and land; revenues are generated through both of these means.

The establishment of IBUAM came at the right time, for it will produce graduates trained in aeronautics engineering, aviation management, and operations who shall offer their services for both the private and public sectors as aviation experts and administrators.

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IBUAM: For Aeronautics and Aviation Management