5 Things You Didn’t Know About Nigeria’s First Female Helicopter Captain, Abimbola Jayeola

History was made recently when Captain Abimbola Jayeola became Nigeria’s first ever female Helicopter Captain.

In her honour, we have dug up 5 key things you probably didn’t know about Captain Jayeola.

1.) She is from Ogun State.

2.) She finished from Abeokuta Grammar School and attended UNAAB for her first degree in EMT.

3.) She was also the first female to scale through the Bristow cadet pilot scholarship training.

4.) She is one of 7 female Helicopter pilots in the country

5.) She flies the sikorsky S76 for Bristow helicopters Nigeria.

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Deji Sadiq, a.k.a DEJI OF LAGOS is a LASU trained Economist turned freelance journalist, a Blogger, an information strategist, a public affairs analyst and a committed activist with a passion for equal opportunities.