The Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Magashi has charged the newly appointed Commandant National Defence College, NDC Rear Admiral Murtala Bashir to move the College to a higher level of reckoning globally.
General Magashi gave the Charge when the Commandant paid him a courtesy call at the Ministry of Defence.
He challenged the Commandant to justify his new appointment by working very hard to improve on the enviable pedigree of academic excellence and high professional trainings for which the college was well known regionally.
While setting new agenda to lift the school, the Defence Minister who is the Chairman Governing Board of the NDC pledged support towards timely completion of the College’s Permanent site, located at Piwoyi, Abuja.
He also welcomed the idea for the award of Masters Degree Certificate to the participants by the institution as proposed by the new Commandant which he said should be brought to the Board for consideration.
The new NDC Commandant Rear Admiral Murtala Bashir thanked the Minister for granting him the audience to intimate him of his assumption of duty and to place before him arrays of robust plans and proposals to move the College to the next level.
The Commandant who was accompanied by the College Secretary, Air Vice Marshal BLP Keenam and Director Coordination Brigadier General EF Oyinlola sought the permission of the Minister for the forthcoming retreat and proposals to engender new courses as well as his endorsement for the activities lined up for the upcoming 30th anniversary of the College by March this year.
About Admiral Murtala Bashir
Rear Admiral Murtala Bashir, a member of 38 Regular Course of the NDA who is above Water Warfare specialist and commissioned on 21st September 1991, assumed the Command of his new Area of Responsibility, last week on the 13th January.
Rear Admiral Bashir who attended several Military and Civil courses and whose last appointment was Commandant Naval War College , Calabar is the 19th NDC boss in the anals of the Institution which was formally known at inception about thirty years ago as National War.
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