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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 ...
Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya. The 1st Division is a formation of the Nigerian Army. It was established during the Nigerian civil war and is charged with securing its area of responsibility covering the North Western flank of Nigeria and also ensuring that the borders located in its AOR are secured. The division is a mechanized infantry with ...
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 Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) are the military forces of Nigeria. The armed forces consist of three service branches: the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, and Nigerian Air Force. The President of Nigeria functions as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, exercising his constitutional authority through the Ministry of Defence, which is ...
Retrieved 22 January 2021 – via Twitter. ^ War Noir ☃️ [@war_noir] (20 January 2021). "#Nigeria: #ISWAP captured/destroyed 3 Isotrex Phantom 2 APCs of Nigerian Army along with ammos (mostly 7.62x54mm API rounds)/ammo box for PK/M pattern GPMGs and at least two mags for 7.62x39mm AK platform in #Borno (between the towns #Gorji and #Kava ...
Ejike Ebenezer Obumneme Aghanya [needs IPA] // ⓘ (27 November 1932 – 3 July 2020 [3]) was a military officer and electrical engineer who served in the Nigerian Army and the Biafran Armed Forces, retiring as a colonel. Accused of involvement in the 1966 Nigerian coup d'état he was arrested and imprisoned without trial until the outbreak of ...
The 6th Amphibious Division of the Nigerian Army is a unit based out of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It serves to organize and improve its internal security operations in four states of the Niger Delta, to include its home Rivers State, that make up the South South geographic region. [1] It operational with effect from the 7 November 2016. [2]
The 3rd Division of the Nigerian Army dates to August–September 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War. At that time 1 Area Command at Kaduna was redesignated 1 Infantry Division, 2 Division was formed under Colonel Murtala Mohammed, and the then Lagos Garrison Organisation was renamed 3 Infantry Division, later to be renamed 3 Marine Commando ...