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<\/p>\nBuratai gave the hint on Thursday in Abuja, after he decorated the 29 newly-promoted Major-Generals and some of the Brigadier-General with their new ranks, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of you that have been promoted and, decorated today; we are only waiting for today and by tomorrow I expect you to pick your bags and start heading towards the North East.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of you have no option than to move in straight there \u2013 North East.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe posting is already out,\u2019\u2019 he said, and directed the Military Secretary to read it to the affected officers.<\/p>\n
Buratai, therefore, appealed to the wives of the officers due to be deployed to the theatre of operation to keep the home front well while their husbands would be away.<\/p>\n
He described the promotion as well deserved; adding that that it was a journey they begun several years and had culminated current enviable ranks of major generals and brigadier generals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe promotion is strictly on merit, there was no any influence from outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must ensure that we get the right people at the right time.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must be committed; your loyalty should remain unshakable,\u2019\u2019 he added, and charged the officers to be responsive and professional in the discharge of their duties.<\/p>\n
The Army Council on Monday approved the promotion of 231 senior officers to the next ranks.<\/p>\n
The breakdown shows that 29 Brigadier-Generals were elevated to Major-Generals, 95 Colonels to Brigadier-Generals, 106 Lieutenant Colonels to Colonels and one Major to Lieutenant Colonel.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has hinted that some of the newly promoted senior officers of the army will be moved to the North East to strengthen ongoing counter-terrorism operations. Buratai gave the hint on Thursday in Abuja, after he decorated the 29 newly-promoted Major-Generals and some of the Brigadier-General with their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65445,"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":[5662,6772],"class_list":["post-67604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buratai","tag-nigeria-army"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604","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=67604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}