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President Buhari Visit Sambisa Forest, The Former Enclave Of Boko Haram by AbiolaFawole(m): 5:26pm On Mar 24, 2017 |
President Muhammadu Buhari will visit Sambisa
Forest, the former enclave of Boko Haram on
Monday to declare open the Nigerian Army Small
Arms Championship, NASAC 2017.
The insurgency group, Boko Haram, who at the
peak of it’s siege on the nation occupied towns
in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, made the
Sambisa Forest their stronghold and strategic
headquarters until they were pushed out by the
military on Christmas eve, last year.
The military had subsequently declared the
former game reserve as a proposed site for
military institution, building roads into it and
kick-starting the new status of Sambisa Forest
with the hosting of the annual Small Arms
Competition. The competition which starts on Monday is expected to be hosted by President Muhammadu Buhari. He is to be accompanied by the Minister of Defense, Alhaji Mansur Ali and Service Chiefs, Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olanisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Sadique and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Obet Ebas. The Chief of Training and Operations, Army, Major General David Amadu, during a press briefing on Friday in Maiduguri to kick-start the NASAC 2017 championship, said the championship would be formally declared open by the President on Monday, March 27, 2017. He said the championship which drew to a close on Friday, March 31st has lined up a chain of activities which would include medical outreach to Bama, Konduga, and Magumeri IDPs camps, educational training for Army Education Corps in Maiduguri , security awareness meetings with the traditional rulers and distribution of relief materials to IDPs within Maiduguri and surrounding towns. Amadu added that the championship was aimed at testing and shaping the intelligence and professional capacity of the Nigerian Army officers and soldiers
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Re: President Buhari Visit Sambisa Forest, The Former Enclave Of Boko Haram by Nwodosis(m): 5:27pm On Mar 24, 2017 |
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Re: President Buhari Visit Sambisa Forest, The Former Enclave Of Boko Haram by Nobody: 5:28pm On Mar 24, 2017 |
He looks funny in that khaki |
Re: President Buhari Visit Sambisa Forest, The Former Enclave Of Boko Haram by ramdris(m): 5:31pm On Mar 24, 2017 |
This is cheating mod...I posted this tory before this dude na...Not fair o..
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Re: President Buhari Visit Sambisa Forest, The Former Enclave Of Boko Haram by muykem: 6:26pm On Mar 24, 2017 |
PMB is a courageous leader; thank God we have finally recaptured all the lost territories. |
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