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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Command Schools may be regular day schools (known as Command Day Secondary School (CDSS)) or boarding schools (known as Command Secondary School (CSS) ). There are a total of 45 Command schools, 30 of which are boarding schools and 15 are day schools. [1] Command schools were established as welfare schools to provide low cost, quality education ...
The Nigerian Army School of Infantry ( NASI) is a unit of the corps, responsible for the basic training and advanced training of soldiers and officers joining the infantry. It is part of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). The School of Infantry's Nature Conservation Education Centre. The NASI Conservation Education Centre was ...
The Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji is a training facility for the Nigerian Armed Forces, including the army, air force and navy. It is near the village of Jaji, Nigeria, about 35 km (22 mi) northeast of Kaduna in the Igabi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is currently headed by Air Vice Marshal Hassan ...
Adekunle was born in Kaduna. His father was a native of Ogbomosho, while his mother was of the Bachama ethnicity. He underwent secondary education at the Government College, Okene (now known as Abdul Aziz Atta Memorial College, Okene, in present-day Kogi State ). He enlisted in the Nigerian Army in 1958 shortly after completing his school ...
The school was established along with three others in the British Colonial West Africa in Gambia, Gold Coast (now Ghana ), and Sierra Leone. It was modeled after the Boys Wing of the British Army. The present day Military School came into being on May 20, 1954. The Nigerian Military School (NMS) had a student battalion that consisted of 4 ...
The Nigerian Army Medical Corps (NAMC) is an administrative corps of the Nigerian Army tasked with medical functions. It is responsible for "general health matters in the Army". [1] The NAMC was created in 1956 and adopted its current name in 1960. It has been involved in various wars, peacekeeping missions, and disaster response.
Ibrahim Attahiru CFR psc(+) GSS CMH ndc (K) FCMH NAM (10 August 1966 – 21 May 2021) was a Nigerian army lieutenant general who served as the Chief of Army Staff from 28 January 2021 to 21 May 2021 when he died in the 2021 NAF Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i crash near Kaduna International Airport.