Nigeria's first female combat pilot, Tolulope Arotile has been laid to rest with full military honours at the National military cemetery Abuja.

Tolulope Arotile, the first female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Air Force, died on Tuesday as a result of head injuries sustained in a road traffic accident in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna.

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