Daily Trust
Ishaq Ibrahim Abubakar, 38, was among 100 young graduates the Kano State government sponsored to attend a professional pilot training abroad in 2013. However, despite completing the training successfully and returning home, he has been left to make ends meet as a tailor.
Abubakar was born at Fagge Quarters in Fagge Local Government Area of the state. He did all his schooling in the state up to a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree from Bayero University, Kano.
He considered himself fortunate when in 2013 he was selected to be among 100 Kano State indigenes that were sponsored by the state government to Jordan for professional pilots training.
Abubakar was brilliant enough as he obtained his Commercial Pilot License with an ‘A’ rating in multi-engine aircraft as commercial pilot certification and other relevant papers at the end of his training.
However, since he returned to Nigeria in 2015, he has not had the opportunity to fly a plane or even be on a crew. He has remained an unemployed pilot despite having certificates which include the Multi-Crew Course (MCC) certificate and Crew Resource Management Certificate (CRM) with RELTER exam – an English Telephoning speciality for pilots.
So, in order to source for livelihood, Abubakar has been forced to take to tailoring, which incidentally was a craft he learnt while growing up. This is to help him to augment the little he gets from other jobs he does such as classroom teaching.
His plight as a trained pilot is said to be associated with some requirements which bother on financial commitments for him to be fully engaged as a pilot.
Abubakar said: “It is a requirement that any pilot in any part of the world after graduating from the flying academy needs extra training for specialisation…
