🇳🇬 AFCSC Commandant Welcomes Dignitaries, Stresses Family and Resilience at HASKE BIYU 2025

 

The Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Air Vice Marshal Hassan I. Alhaji, has declared open Exercise HASKE BIYU 2025 with a call for national unity and resilience built on the foundation of family.

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Date: Monday, 15 September 2025
Time: 14:30 WAT
Location: 📍 Jaji, Nigeria

Addressing dignitaries at the college, he highlighted the evolution of the exercise from a tactical drill to a whole-of-nation platform. “This year, we have expanded the scope to reinforce institutional synergy and national resilience as a pathway to peace and prosperity,” he said.

Air Vice Marshal Alhaji noted that the Armed Forces Command and Staff College has trained security leaders from 41 countries over 49 years of operation, and has run Exercise HASKE BIYU for more than three decades. Originally focused on synergy between the Armed Forces and Police, the exercise now integrates all security agencies, first responders, civil society, and the media.

He explained that the 2025 theme, Family and National Security, reflects the central role of family in values, stability, and resilience. The Commandant described the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, as a fitting Special Guest of Honour and keynote speaker, “as the mother of the nation and an accomplished leader in her own right.”

On the broader context, the AFCSC Commandant warned that global turmoil in the next five years could pose existential threats to Nigeria if urgent reforms are not pursued. “We must ramp up food and manufacturing capacity to achieve self-sufficiency and ensure we are beneficiaries, not victims, of global crises,” he stressed.

He tied Nigeria’s internal security and economic stability to achieving the trillion-dollar economy pledged by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, urging collective resolve to overcome multidimensional crises.

Closing his remarks, AVM Alhaji expressed hope that Exercise HASKE BIYU 2025 will deliver its objectives “to the glory of God and the benefit of mankind.”

Fact-Check & Background Context

·        AFCSC has trained personnel from 41 countries since 1976, making it a key regional military college. Verified.

·        Exercise HASKE BIYU has been held annually for about 30 years, initially focused on military-police synergy. Confirmed by past AFCSC records.

·        2025 theme Family and National Security aligns with Nigeria’s current internal security debates and government emphasis on family values.

·        Background: Nigeria faces a multidimensional crisis—security threats, food insecurity, economic misalignments. The Commandant’s link between family values, resilience, and global turbulence underscores a national security doctrine shift toward whole-of-society defence.

Tags: AFCSC Jaji, HASKE BIYU 2025, Family and National Security, Nigeria Defence, Civil-Military Relations

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