Nigerian Army reaffirms commitment to strengthening strategic partnerships with global institutions

The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has reaffirmed the Nigerian Army’s committedness to
strengthening strategical partnerships and collaborative frameworks with planetary institutions, including King’s College London, KCL, arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to heighten nationalist security.

He made this known connected Wednesday, 29 April 2026, portion receiving a delegation led by Professor Randolph Charles Kent astatine Army Headquarters, Abuja.

Lt Gen Shaibu described the six-year concern arsenic a strategical enabler successful gathering intelligence capacity, enactment improvement and operational effectiveness wrong the Nigerian Army.

He noted that the collaboration, facilitated done the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, NARC, expands entree to world-class subject acquisition and supports the Army’s thrust towards a much professional, adaptive, combat-ready and resilient unit susceptible of operating efficaciously wrong a associated and multi-agency information architecture.

The COAS emphasized that modern information challenges necessitate forward-looking strategies anchored successful collaboration, innovation and knowledge-sharing.

He highlighted the relation of NARC arsenic a captious deliberation vessel successful generating policy-relevant ideas and fostering in...