A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NIGERIA ARMY BEFORE INDEPENDENCE

The Nigeria Army started in 1863 when the Imperial Governor of Lagos, Lt Glover of the Royal Navy gathered 18 Northern Nigerians to mount punitive expeditions to protect British trade routes around Lagos. This small force metamorphosed into the Hausa Constabulary and later formed part of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF).

The visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Nigerian in a 1956 led to the renaming of the Northern and Southern Regiments to the Queen’s Own Nigerian Regiment (QONR). When later in that same year, Britain granted military autonomy to her dependencies, the QONR was re-designated the Nigerian Military Force (NMF), and at independence in 1960, the name changed to the Royal Nigerian Army. The present designation, Nigerian Army (NA), came into use when Nigeria assumed a Republic status in 1963.

HISTORY AND MEANING OF ARMY MOTTO

The adoption of the motto of the Sokoto Caliphate, as that of the Nigerian Army, was made by the British - before Nigerian Independence. One of the reasons was that the fall of Sokoto in 1903 - and the death of Sultan Attahiru - was (and in some circles, still is) inaccurately regarded by Western historians as the last formal battle in the fall of whatbecame "Nigeria". The highly symbolic Flag of THE Caliphate was captured by the British, recaptured BY gallant Sokoto Horsemen and recaptured again by THE British. It was kept for many years as a British trophy in one of the officers' messes in Kaduna but returned in a formal ceremony just prior to Nigerian Independence. The myth was spun and sustained by British tradition. However, "Nigeria" did not really fall in 1903. The Tiv of the middle belt of "Northern Nigeria", for example, were not militarily or otherwise pacified for at least another ten (10) years. Many pockets of resistance remained in present day "Southern Nigeria" - including Ekumeku and many others. Abeokuta lost its independence in 1914.

Nevertheless, the symbolism of the events of 1903 became etched into official memory, as shaped by Dealtry Lugard, which is why the Northern Nigeria regiment and later the combined Nigeria regiment (when Lugard supervised the wedding of Northern and Southern Nigeria in 1914) adopted the Sokoto motto. Many indigenous pre-colonial Nigerian armies and nationalities resisted British rule. They all presumably had their own mottos, but Sir Lugard was preoccupied with his personal legacy as embodied by the subjugation of the Sokoto Caliphate and stabilization of the Anglo-French colonial frontier in the north. It is not the making of modern day "Northern Nigeria" or "Northern leaders" or "Leaders of Northern origin" or "Hausa-Fulani oligarchy or cabal" - as various writers suggest, that the motto of the Nigerian Army is that of the pre-colonial Sokoto Caliphate.

NASRUNMINALLAH

Which means victory is from God alone.
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Nigerian-Army-s-logo-have-an-Arabic-inscription

People in charge dictate everything. Others are just like subservient individuals or second/third class citizens with little right or say.

How many Nigerians can read that inscription? How will the muslim North feel if Hebrew is used instead of Arabic.

All good national posts and all the natural resources are taken over already. We only have collaborators.

Everything needs restructuring if we're to remain one nation.

This is wrong story.

This is why Nigeria can never be one, I am a Christian and I want a Christian logo or we remove it all to accommodate everyone, fulanis destroyed Nigeria with their, I own Nigeria mentality

It will always have Arabic inscriptions.

1, 2, 3, 4 ... etc. are called Arabic numerals

and

I, II, III, IV ... etc. are called Roman numerals

by your Oyibo masters.

At least some Nigerians can understand Arabic, but you can use the Hebrew or erase all the Arabic there and use Greek or Roman letters, if it will make you happier and richer.

As if I you don't know it's because Fulani Muslims are in control.

Old news we don't care about it they can keep it we can keep our Biafra and Oduduwa.

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