Uniindia: New Delhi, Dec 23 (UNI) Indian Army on Thursday launched a contemporary messaging application named ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application), a new generation, state of the art, web based application developed entirely in-house by team of officers of the Signals Corps of the Army.
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Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff – How Borno indigene foretold his elevation in 2016
In 2016, Ibrahim Uba Yusuf, an indigene of Borno was so impressed with new Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor that he declared him his man of the year in a local publication in Maiduguri.
Before then, the entire Sambisa Forest had fallen to Gboko Haram but Irabor led the operations that recovered greater part of the forest. Yusuf celebrated Irabor this way: “The year 2016 is remarkable to not only the people of Borno or North East but also the whole of Nigeria because of the fall of camp and hideout of the Boko Haram leader Shekau in Sambisa.
Respected elderstatesman and former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has sent a letter of felicitation to former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola on his 70th birthday.
Prince Oyinlola, who is also a former military administrator of Lagos State, will clock 70 years on Wednesday, 3 February, 2021.
General Gowon, in the two-page letter personally signed by him described Oyinlola as a person of character adding that Oyinlola had been “an exceptional success” from the time he knew him “as a young officer” over 50 years ago in the Signals Corps of the Nigeria Army, and who later “meritoriously rose to the enviable rank of Brigadier General.”