Tinubu approves expansion, recruitment of 28,000 personnel into Nigerian Army

President Bola Tinubu has approved the enlargement of the Nigerian Army’s operation from 8 to 12 divisions.

A connection by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, connected Thursday, said the president besides approved the recruitment of 20,000 further unit into the Nigerian Army.

Onanuga said the determination is to heighten the country’s information architecture and amended the operational effectiveness of the Nigerian Army.

According to him, the support underscores the President’s unwavering committedness to equipping the Armed Forces to code Nigeria’s evolving information challenges efficaciously and to fortify nationalist defence capabilities further.

Under the caller structure, the Nigerian Army volition run 12 divisions, strategically positioned crossed the state arsenic follows:

1 Division Headquarters – Kaduna (Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States)

2 Division Headquarters – Ibadan (Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo States)

3 Division Headquarters – Jos (Plateau, Bauchi and Gombe States)

5 Division Headquarters – Makurdi (Benue, Nasarawa and Kogi States)

6 Division Headquarters – Port Harcourt (Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River States)

7 Division Headquarters – Maiduguri (Borno and Yobe States)

8 Division Headquarters – Sokoto (Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States)

9 Division Headquarters – Ilorin (Kwara and Niger States)