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<\/p>\nNAN reports that Akinroluyo, who stated this on Tuesday in Jos, at the flag-off of the Division\u2019s Inter-brigade Sports Festival (NIFEST), said that the situation had necessitated an urgent need for reorientation at all levels.<\/p>\n
The GOC, who was represented by the Chief of Staff, Brig. Gen. Musa Danmadami, said that the sports festival was timely, coming at a time of growing concerns on the ability of troops, and indeed the Nigeria Army, to tackle security challenges confronting the nation.<\/p>\n
He declared that physical and emotional preparations were paramount to achieving mandates, and emphasised the need for all to adequately train in order to ensure optimal performance at all times.<\/p>\n
Akinroluyo said that the sports festival was intended to prepare the army personnel for battle in view of the present recurrent security challenges.<\/p>\n
According to him, the exercise was part of the Chief of Army Staff\u2019s vision to have a professionally responsive Nigeria Army that would effectively discharge its constitutional roles.<\/p>\n
He listed the events to be competed for, to include weapon handling, physical fitness\/obstacles crossing, map reading, drill and combat swimming, as well as life firing at the range.<\/p>\n
Brig. Gen. Ola Olatoye, Director, Directorate of Physical Training, Nigeria Army, advised the participants to adhere strictly to rules of the sports.<\/p>\n
Olatoye said that 28 participants, comprising 23 male soldiers, three female soldiers and two subalterns would represent each brigade.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The current security challenges have exposed the gaps in army training and operations, Maj. Gen. Benson Akinroluyo, General Officer Commanding (GOC), 3 Division, Nigeria Army, Rukuba, has said. NAN reports that Akinroluyo, who stated this on Tuesday in Jos, at the flag-off of the Division\u2019s Inter-brigade Sports Festival (NIFEST), said that the situation had necessitated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22905,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6772,1803],"class_list":["post-61283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigeria-army","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61283","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=61283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}