Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot dies.

Nigerian Air Force’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, has died in a road accident.

It was learnt that Arotile sustained head injuries from the road accident which occurred at the NAF Base in Kaduna.

NAF in a press statement said the flight officer died on Tuesday.

The statement quoted the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, as describing her death as an “irreparable loss”.

Arotile, who hailed from Iffe in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, recently completed a programme at the Starlite International Training Academy, South Africa.

She died less than a year after she was decorated as the first female combatant helicopter pilot.

Arotile graduated as the best flight student from the Nigerian Air Force in 2017. She was one of the 13 pilots inducted at the NAF Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday, August 15, 2019.

They were deployed in the North-East and other parts of the country for security operations. 📹: via @buzybees__

14-yr-old pregnant girl commits suicide after being beaten by her dad.

A 14 year old secondary school girl, Anita Haledu Ibrahim, has allegedly committed suicide in Angwan Dorowa, Gbuja village, Andaha, Nasarawa state.

According to reports, the deceased, an SS1 student of Government Science School, Andaha, drank some amount of herbicide on Saturday, 11th July, 2020 and was rushed to a hospital where she died this morning.

A family source disclosed that when Anita got pregnant for her boyfriend during the COVID-19 lockdown, her father allegedly severely beat her after finding out about it.