By KINGSLEY OMONOBI

ABUJA – The Nigerian Air Force has effected a major shake up in its hierarchy with the postings and appointments of new Air Officers Commanding and Air Officers in charge to reflect its four-field command structure.

Eleven Air Vice Marshals, 20 Air Commodores, 55 Group Captains were affected and they include Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Salihu, formrerly the Air Officer Inspections, now Air Officer Commanding Training Command, Kaduna; Air Vice Marshal Chimefulam Oyeamobi moves from Defence Headquarters to NAF HQ as Chief of Standards and Evaluation.

Air Vice Marshal John Olusola Oshoniyi, formerly Air Officer Logistics moves to Kaduna as Commandant Air Force Institute of Technology; Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun is the new Air Officer in charge Logistics at NAF HQ; Air Vice Marshal Isiaku Umar, formerly the SASO at Tactical Air Command, Markudi is now the Director of Operations at NAF HQ.

Air Vice Marshal Dickson Dilimono, formerly Director of Operations at NAF HQ moves to Defence Headquarters as Director of Operations; Air Vice Marshal Moses Akinsanmi, formerly Director of Operations, Defence Headquarters is now Managing Director, Air Force Post Service Housing Scheme; Air Vice Marshal Monday Morgan is Director of Electronic Warfare at DHQ.

Also, Air Vice Marshal Christian Chukwu, formerly Commander 303 Flying Training School moves to Training Command as Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO); Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Iya is the new SASO, Tactical Air Command; Air Vice Marshal Olufemi Idowu is the Director Personnel Services at DHQ and Air Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar is the SASO at Mobility Command.

Some of the Air Commodores are A. A. Zanna, Commander, Special Operations Group, Port Harcourt; D. A. Akpofure, Commander 330 NAF Station, Jos; L. T. Dambaki, Commander, 303 Flying Training School, Kano. M. A. Soladoye, Commander 335 Base Services Group, Kaduna and A. M. Njidda, Commander Aeromedical Centre, Kaduna.