Nigerian envoy advocates continuous training to improve performance of military
By Auwal Ahmad Umar
Nigeria’s Ambassador to Benin Republic, General Tukur Yusufu Buratai (rtd), has advocated for continuous training among the Armed Forces of Nigeria as a tool to improve performance in the military.
The Envoy made the assertion Saturday at the National Defence College Nigeria while presenting a lecture on Strategic Leadership to the participants of Course 30/2021 of the College.
According to Buratai, such training remains the solution for excellence in strategic leadership.
The former Chief of Army Staff called for the exposition of officers and soldiers to training courses both at home and abroad, inspiring a shared vision, to inculcate core values; ethics and standards to improve the performance of the Nigerian Army.
He added that a strategic leader was the one that has the experience, as stated by General Douglas McArthur.
He enumerated qualities of a good strategic leader which includes the need for a weight control policy to ensure that officers and soldiers are physically, medically and mentally fit to enable them to perform their jobs optimally.
Ambassador Buratai called for the need to improve on innovation as it is key to achieving the vision and goals set in every task, “You must develop the capacity of your officers and men. It would help if you were versatile and adaptive. Every leader aims to get the job done, through exemplary leadership” he said.
“We have made Nigeria Army a Modern Army, we have made Nigeria Army professional by introducing many Infrastructures like the Nigeria Army Warfare Research. My regretsares are not discovering our Initiative of MRAP and many war instruments but we thank God as it has been introduced” he added.