COAS tasks RSMs on discipline, mentorship, operational effectiveness

The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has charged Regimental Sergeant Majors, RSMs, of the Nigerian Army to fortify discipline, mentorship and regimentation arsenic the work advances its ongoing enlargement and modernisation thrust to heighten operational effectiveness and nationalist security.

This was contained successful a connection by Colonel Appolonia Anele, the Acting Director, Army Public Relations.

According to the statement, the COAS gave the complaint connected Friday, 6 November 2026, during the closing ceremonial of the Second Regimental Sergeant Majors' Convention 2026 successful Benin City, Edo State.

The connection said the five-day convention, held from 2 to 6 November, brought unneurotic RSMs from crossed Army formations and units, alongside representatives of sister services and information agencies.

Lieutenant General Shaibu described RSMs arsenic custodians of the Army's nonrecreational quality and warring spirit, serving arsenic mentors to soldiers, advisers to commanders and guardians of organization values.

He stressed that their effectiveness goes beyond smartness connected parade to inclu...