Director Army public relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu says recent successes recorded in the various theatres of operation due to the chief of army staff (COAS) Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya’s transformational and selfless leadership style.
Nwachukwu stated this at a press briefing in Abuja heralding the chief of army staff (COAS) annual conference with the theme “Building a Professional Nigerian Army for the 21st Century Security Environment” bid to hold between December 4 through 10 in Sokoto State.
He said the conference offers the service an opportunity to review ongoing operations across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
“Customarily, the COAS annual conference will offer an avenue for reappraisal of the administrative affairs of the Nigerian Army, evaluate and comprehensively review ongoing operational engagements of the Nigeria Army (NA) in all theatres of operations across the six geo-political zones within the year, among other key agenda.
“This will provide the NA an in-depth insight to take far reaching decisions that will be result oriented towards achieving its set objective of addressing the multifaceted security challenges in the country” he said.
He added that the conference would also create an opportunity for the COAS to have a face to face interaction with all the general officers commanding, field commanders and other senior officers to provide possible guidance on enhancing NA activities and operations.
He boasted that the army has over the years demonstrated its capacity and zeal in defending Nigeria’s territorial integrity and sovereignty against external aggression and giving aid to civil authority in mitigating internal security challenges in the country.
He said, “This is further demonstrated in the purposeful leadership drive of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya whose efforts have tremendously enhanced the capacity and dexterity of troops in the onslaughts against terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements in the country.”
