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The Nigerian Army traces its history to Lieutenant John Hawley Glover's Constabulary Force, which was largely composed of freed Hausa slaves in 1863. [6] The Constabulary Force was established with the primary goal of protecting the Royal Niger Company and its assets from constant military incursions by the neighboring Ashanti Empire. [7]
The Nigerian Army (NA) is the land branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the largest among the armed forces. Its major formations include the 1st Division , 2nd Division , 3rd Armoured Division , 81st Division , 82nd Division and the newly formed 8th, 7th and 6th Divisions.
Personnel corps, in the Nigerian Army (NA), are groupings of related military occupations. The Nigerian Army is functionally organized into combat arms and combat support arms. [1] [2] There are 17 Corps Training Schools that support these corps. [3]
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.
On 1 June 1958, the British Army Council in London relinquished control of Nigerian Military Force (NMF) to the Nigerian Government. Upon its creation, the ministry was given responsibility over the two branches of the military in existence at that time the Royal Nigerian Army and the Royal Nigerian Navy and later oversaw the founding of the ...
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is a military university based in Kaduna, Nigeria, that trains officer cadets for commissioning into one of the three services of the Nigerian Armed Forces: the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. The duration of training at the Nigerian Defence Academy is five years (four years academic and one year military).
Command Schools are run by the Nigerian Army Education Corps through the Directorate of Command Schools Services. Each Command School is headed by a commandant who is an army officer typically at the rank of lieutenant colonel or major, although the commandant may rarely be a colonel.
At the start of the Nigerian Civil War, the 2 Division was responsible for the beating back of the Biafran Army to the River Niger. [ 2 ] In 2018, the annual 2 Division Army Inter Brigade Warrant Officers and Senior Non-Commissioned Officers Competition was announced to be held from August 13–17.