Nigerian Army Chief commends National Institute’s training programmes
By Nokai Origin, Abuja
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has expressed appreciation to the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) for the quality of training the officers of the Nigerian Army receives over the years.
General Yahaya expressed this appreciation when he received the Director General of the NIPSS, Professor Ayo Omotayo and his team on a courtesy call on the Army Headquarters, Abuja.
He called on other security establishments to key into what the National institute has to offer while urging its leadership not to relent in the work for a better society.
The Director General, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Professor Ayo Omotayo said the institute has high regards for the Nigerian Army and recognise all that it has been doing for the Institute.
He further stated that “the Nigerian Army has been the driving force behind the institute alongside sister security services.”
Professor Omotayo said; “The country has been going through trying times and with recent events security has been a very vital areas of our lives that has been Commanding attention.”
“The Nigerian Army has been a strong force behind the quest to secure the country and has been such a great support system to the institute” Professor Omotayo explained.
He praised the quality of the officers of the Nigerian Army attached to the institute for being good Ambassadors of the Army.
He also appreciated the Army’s ongoing construction of Staff quarters for the institute.
The National Institute or NIPSS, was established by Decree number 20 of 1979, now Cap N-51 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The Institute was conceived as a high-level institution with the primary objectives of serving as the nation’s foremost policy think-tank to develop a crop of top-class technocrats of high intellectual capacity, who will conceptualise and anchor the implementation of innovative as well as dynamic policy initiatives and strategies critical for national development.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
