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Captain Chinyere Onyenaucheya (1970 )
Meet Nigeria’s first female pilot. She is also the first female commercial pilot in the nation.
Chinyere Kalu, MFR (née Onyenucheya) is the first Nigerian female commercial pilot and the first woman to fly an aircraft in Nigeria. She served as the rector and Chief Executive of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology between October 2011 and February 2014.