COAS Shaibu pushes for modern military training, cadet exchange with Rwanda

The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu says that to fortify combat readiness and interoperability betwixt Nigeria and Rwanda, determination is the request for modern subject training, nonrecreational subject acquisition and cadet speech programmes.

Security analyst, Zagazola Makama successful a station connected X connected Wednesday stated that Shaibu made the remarks connected Tuesday, October 20, 2026, during a sojourn to the Rwanda Military Academy, RMA, Gako, arsenic portion of his authoritative moving sojourn to Rwanda to deepen bilateral defence cooperation.

He noted that Col. Appolonia Anele, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, successful a connection said the COAS commended the academy's grooming standards, subject and professionalism, peculiarly the tactical proficiency displayed during a Special Forces demonstration.

According to Makama, the COAS explained, "Evolving information threats required innovative grooming approaches, effectual enactment and operational adaptability, stressing that nonrecreational subject acquisition remained indispensable to producing competent officers susceptible of operating successful analyzable information environments."

The information expert stated that Shaibu urged the academy's enactment to hole for the archetypal batch of Nigerian serviceman cadets expected to enactment successful a projected speech programme betwixt the 2 countries, saying that Nigeria and Rwanda could leverage their respect...