{"id":170031,"date":"2019-11-23T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170031"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:19:43","slug":"nigerian-army-relocates-yaba-units-to-epe-gives-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170031","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army relocates Yaba units to Epe, gives reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigerian Army has relocated some of its units and formations located at Yaba to Epe to pave way for the expansion of railway project in Lagos State.<\/p>\n

The units relocated were the 81 Division Base Ordinance Depot, printing press and tailoring factory, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, during the ground breaking for the construction on Saturday, disclosed that the relocation would lead to enhanced military presence in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to come back because of the federal government\u2019s new drive to modernise the transport sector by establishing new standard dual gauge railway system for our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to use this opportunity to appreciate the cooperation of the honourable minister of transportation, in facilitating the prompt approval and release of fund that has made this a laudable project a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minister was very supportive of the Nigerian army throughout the negotiation for the movement of this unit out of Yaba for the speedy completion of negotiations and of course the funding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Army Chief also commended the paramount ruler of Epe, Oba Kamorudeen Animashaun, for his continuous support for Nigerian army in its operations and the relocation of the unit base to the area.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, represented by Deputy Director, Rail Transport Services, Mr Barry Odii, said that the ministry decided to support army because of its cooperation in relocating the units from Yaba railway corridor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ground breaking ceremony for the construction of new office and a residential accommodation as well as other facilities for 81 Division Ordinance Corps will mark a significant milestone in the history of transportation sector and the country at large.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an exhibition of an excellent intercourse between the Nigerian army and the Federal ministry of transportation,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigerian Army has relocated some of its units and formations located at Yaba to Epe to pave way for the expansion of railway project in Lagos State. The units relocated were the 81 Division Base Ordinance Depot, printing press and tailoring factory, NAN reports. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5115],"class_list":["post-170031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-army"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}