By Olayemi Esan
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Faruk Yahaya has advised candidates of this year’s Senior Staff Course Qualifying Examination (SSCQE) to up the standard, as the Nigerian Army will always reward competence, diligence and good conduct.
The COAS expressed this in a statement signed by Director Army Public Relations Brig. Gen Onyema Nwachukwu and made available to SpyeTV on Wednesday.
The Army Chief, while addressing 257 Mid-level cadre officers between the ranks of Major and Captain at the Ihejirika Auditorium, Jaji, Kaduna observed that the exams will not only qualify the candidates for Senior Staff Course, but will also have a long term effect on their career.
He therefore, urged them to effectively utilize the opportunity and restated that the Nigerian Army will always place premium on competence, character and good conduct in its career progression examinations.
The COAS used the occasion to commend the Commander Infantry Corps, Major General Victor Ezugwu and staff Officers of the Headquarters Infantry Corps Centre for hosting another successful SSCQE in Jaji.
In his remarks, the Exams President, who is the Commander Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Maj. Gen Stevenson Olabanji assured that this year’s exams will bring out the best from the officers.
Olabanji pointed out that the exams have been carefully prepared to depict real time scenarios in the country and observed that the questions are domesticated by putting the contemporary security challenges experienced in some parts of the country into consideration.
He declared that the effort is geared towards ensuring that this crop of officers are better than they were before writing the qualifying exams.