Acting COAS expresses worries over challenges faced by soldiers

Acting COAS expresses worries over challenges faced by soldiers …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>

The Acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has solicited for more budgetary allocation for the Nigerian Army to enable it to discharge its constitutional responsibilities and provide accommodation for soldiers.

Oluyede made the appeal when he received the Senate Committee on Army led by Sen. Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua on a condolence visit on Monday in Abuja.

The army, he said, has been recruiting about 15,000 personnel yearly but is yet to provide commensurate…

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