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Dickson Orji is the Programmes Coordinator, Nigerian Presidential Committee on the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (PRESCOM). He is an expert in Defence, Security and Human Development and also the President, West Africa Action Network on Small Arms (WAANSA-Nigeria). After a two-day training of Trainers Workshop For Border Security Operatives sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) …

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The International Press Centre (IPC) has called on the military authorities to act with civility in their search for the missing retired Major General, Idris Alkali. This follows a “brutal” military operation in Dura-Du in Jos South Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State in the efforts to unravel the circumstances surrounding the missing of Major General Alkali (rtd), IPC …

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Arábìnrin Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu Various news media sources on the 13th of November 2017 carried the report of how the Nigerian Military in its newly ratified “Conditions of Service” has implemented a major policy reversal by excluding female cadets from the combatant course of the Nigerian Defence Academy. This policy reversal it has been reported was based on the recommendation of …

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