Emerging Security Challenges: Army Moves to Enhance Capacity of Officers
Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto
In view of emerging security challenges in the country, the Nigerian Army has organized a seminar to enhance the capacity of its officers, to meet up the challenges.
Declaring the seminar with the themed “Capacity Development of Nigerian Army Personnel to Meet Contemporary.
Security Challenges in a Joint Environment” open, the chief of Army Staff (COAS) Maj General Taoreed Lagbaja said Nigerian Army is committed to training and retraining of its officers to enable them meet the nation’s security challenges.
Represented by Maj General Aligbe Kelvin Lagbaja said it is imperative to produce well-trained officers that will effectively confront the prevailing security challenges in the country.
COAS further explained that the seminar was in line with his vision of having “a professional Army ready to accomplish assigned mission within a joint environment in the defence of Nigeria”.
” I have a vision to transform the Nigerian Army into a well-trained , equipped and highly motivated force”.
According to him, “the myriad of security challenges the country is facing require officers and leaders to be equipped with the requisite knowledge to tackle the situation.
“Therefore, the Nigerian Army will continue to organize trainings and seminars to ensure we build professional personnel and leaders at all levels.”
He further stated that the seminar was intended to avail participants the necessary capabilities and competencies required to successfully accomplish assigned missions, as it relates to emerging security threats.
He added that, “the topics and resource persons have been carefully selected and designed to reflect current realities on ground as well as to enable participants to derive maximum benefits from the seminar.
“Accordingly, the seminar has been deliberately tailored to focus on leadership at command levels, intelligence gathering, military decision making process, logistics planning, legal implications and human right issues among others.
“As we continue to implement the Nigerian Army Forecast of Events and Training Directive for 2023, I implore you to seize the opportunity of this seminar to improve on your knowledge of leadership.”
He expressed optimism that by the end of the seminar, the set objectives would have been met to enable them discharge their constitutional roles professionally, adding that “the dynamic and ever changing security situation in the country requires that the Nigerian Army equip leaders at all levels with the requisite capabilities to face these challenges, especially in a complex environment.
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“I, therefore, urge you all to apply yourselves to all that will be taught by tapping from the wealth of knowledge and experiences of the resource persons”.
In his welcome address the General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Sokoto Maj Gen Godwin Michael Mutkut thanked the COAS for giving the hosting right to 8 Division.
He also appreciated the Chief of Army Staff for providing resources and funds for the seminar saying the gesture would go along way in equipping the officers across board.
The representative of COAS later commissioned the official residence of General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Sokoto and command quarters before the commencement of seminar’s lectures.
