President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate payment of insurance entitlements owed families of officers, soldiers, who died while fighting to defend Nigeria.
The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, announced this at the opening of the Combined Second and Third Quarters COAS Conference, in Abuja.
Lagbaja said the welfare of troops and their families was of paramount importance, pledging to consolidate all existing welfare arrangements to keep them focused on their tasks.
The COAS appreciated the President Tinubu’s strategic guidance of the Armed Forces and
for directing that all pending insurance payments owed the families are paid without delay.
He urged the personnel to work with other security agencies to decisively deal with all security challenges facing the country.