Army Presents Personal Insurance to Beneficiaries of Personnel who dies in active service

The Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has presented cheques to ten (10) first time beneficiaries of the Nigerian Army Personal Insurance Scheme.

The move is part of an effort to provide financial security and to support the families of personnel who died in active service for the nation. 

The presentation was part of the closing ceremony of the Chief of Army Staff Combined Second and Third Quarters Conference 2023, at the Army Headquarters Command Officers’ Mess 1, Abuja, Nigeria's Capital. 

This gesture by the Army Chief is an expression of Nigerian Army’s appreciation of the service and sacrifices its personnel rendered in defence of the nation.

Addressing the participants at the closing ceremony, General Lagbaja expressed confidence in the competencies of his men and their commitment together with sister services and other security agencies to create the anabling environment for good governance and economic prosperity. 

He said the conference afforded the officers quality time to review Nigerian Army's training, operational and administrative activities that directly relate to security issues crucial to the nation and external environment. 

"We must recaliberate our strength to deal decisive blow to the advasaries within and without appropriately, therefore, I expect that the decisions arrived at during our deliveration will help refine our training and Operational activities towards realising desirable outcome"

"Our deliberations on pertinent issues during the conference have reinforce the task ahead of us and fairly depicted that it is not going to be easy. Let me reiterate, that we can not afford to show any form of weakness because the advasaries we fight are embolden by weakness. 

During the conference, formation commanders leading various operations accross the country’s geopolitical zones breifed the participants as some selected middle cadre officers joined in the deliberation as revealed by the Army Chief. 

 

At the end of the conference, the former Force Commander the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Major General Abdulkahlifa Ibrahim was decorated with the National Order of Chad medal of honour, presented to him by the Chadian Government, during his tour of duty.