The Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Uche Ugwu, has endorsed Eastwing Aviation Institute (EAI), Enugu’s 2025 Southeast Aviation Institute scheduled to hold in August.
Ugwu gave the endorsement when the management of the institute paid him a courtesy visit in his office for the summit, on Thursday in Enugu.
The summit was titled Face of Eastwing/Southeast Aviation Summit 2025.
Pledging his support for the summit, Ugwu charge the school to intensify its awareness creation for the institute, revealing that most people in Southeast do not know about the school.
“I will use whatever in my capacity to support the summit even speaking with my other colleagues to key into the programme.
“But on your own, there is need to create awareness about this as our people here patronise only what they know like medicine, law, Nursing and other courses,” Ugwu advised.
Earlier, the Provost of the Institute, Dr Abioye Babalola, said the visit was to inform the speaker about the submit.
He said 100 southeast youths would be trained on various skills and opportunities in aviation that would make them self-reliant.
Babalola decried that most students of the institute were from the South West and South South, expressing the need for youth of the southeast to key into the aviation sector.
The provost explained that the school was founded in 2013 and had since obtained necessary approval from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
“We also offer courses on flight dispatcher course, cabin crew, ramp safety procedure, aeronautic store management, airline quality assurance course, airline ticketing among others.
“The institute single handedly trained over 100 aviation personnels in different aviation trades for the take-off of airport in Awka, Anambra State.
“We also approached National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Kaduna to upgrade some of our courses to National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) which approval had been given in 2023,” he said.
He explained that their graduates competes favourably with their counterpart trained abroad and other aviation institute in Nigeria.
“This is why we came to see you to support this submit,” he said.
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