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Authorities of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and that of the Federal University of Technologies, Akure (FUTA) have place in location machinery to additional deepen their partnership so as to sustain an current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and other allied collaborations in the areas of engineering, meteorology and digital sciences. The MoU, element of which contain maintenance and repairs of (NAF) Aircrafts signed about 5 years ago, allowed Engineers from FUTA to be deployed to join a team that successfully repair some NAF aircrafts that created troubles in Port-Harcourt. Major a team from the Air Force High Command to explore ways of deepening the collaboration, Chief of Air Employees, NAF, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, represented by Chief of Normal and Evaluation, NAF, Air Vice Marshall Kingsley Lar reiterated the readiness of NAF to tap into the experience of FUTA in locations of the University’s core competence in cutting edge technological innovation and investigation. He said the vision of the Nigerian Air Force is to reform its operations via capacity developing and it believes such can be sought from reliable larger institutions like FUTA. He added that the MoU signed a couple of years ago has been of mutual benefit to the two parties. Responding, the vice-chancellor, FUTA, Prof. Joseph Fuwape stated FUTA has the capacity to collaborate with the NAF and many reliable organisations. He stated FUTA has competent Engineering Departments that are second to none in the nation. He said the NAF can advantage from FUTA’s technical know-how in meteorology and climate science, Space Study and applications and allied fields. Fuwape told his guests that FUTA, in collaboration with the National Space Study and Development Agency (NASRDA) is the initially Institution to launch a satellite in Nigeria and has capacity to develop digital map of any environment which will be of excellent aid to the Air Force in its operations. The Vice-Chancellor commended the effort of the men of the Air Force for their function in suppressing the activities of Boko Haram in the North-Eastern portion of Nigeria. Speaking relatedly the director, Center for Space and Study Applications (CESRA) Prof. Joseph Akinyede mentioned FUTA has been in partnership with Air Force for rather a lengthy time and also in partnership with Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NMA). The director of West African Science Service Centre on Climate Adjust and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), Prof. Kehinde Ogunjobi expressed the readiness of WASCAL to train Air Force officers at postgraduate levels.