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Alhaji Ismaila Aliyu, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, says the current security challenges in the country has placed additional burden on the military and other security agencies. This is contained in a statement issued from the Ministry of Defence and signed by Blessing Ejeagha, an information officer in the Press and Public Relations Department.
The statement said Aliyu made the observation while inaugurating the 24-member National Planning Committee on the 2014 Armed Forces Remembrance Day headed by Maj.-Gen. Lawal Banjiram, on behalf of Mr Labaran Maku, the supervising Minister.
"The daily sacrifices of these patriotic citizens should be recognised in an exemplary occasion such as the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration,’’ he said.
Aliyu said it was to their credit that peace was gradually returning to troubled spots.
He said that the Armed Forces Remembrance Day was an annual event organised by the ministry to honour fallen heroes, who lost their lives in the service to humanity during the first and second world wars and Nigerian Civil War.
"It is also a day to mark Peace Support Operations and to honour the veterans who are alive,'' he said, and urged the committee to work tirelessly to make the occasion a remarkable success.''
Aliyu recalled that the Day was celebrated on Nov. 11 of every year to coincide with the Remembrance Day (POPPY Day) for the World War II veterans in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
He said that Nigeria changed the celebration of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day to January of every year in commemoration of the end of the Nigerian Civil War.
The Chairman of the Committee, Maj.-Gen. Banjiram, in his remarks, said that the remembrance was a yearly ritual observed for fallen heroes, who had paid the supreme price for the nation.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Col. Micah Gayya (rtd), thanked Aliyu and assured him that they would not disappoint him.
The statement said Aliyu made the observation while inaugurating the 24-member National Planning Committee on the 2014 Armed Forces Remembrance Day headed by Maj.-Gen. Lawal Banjiram, on behalf of Mr Labaran Maku, the supervising Minister.
"The daily sacrifices of these patriotic citizens should be recognised in an exemplary occasion such as the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration,’’ he said.
Aliyu said it was to their credit that peace was gradually returning to troubled spots.
He said that the Armed Forces Remembrance Day was an annual event organised by the ministry to honour fallen heroes, who lost their lives in the service to humanity during the first and second world wars and Nigerian Civil War.
"It is also a day to mark Peace Support Operations and to honour the veterans who are alive,'' he said, and urged the committee to work tirelessly to make the occasion a remarkable success.''
Aliyu recalled that the Day was celebrated on Nov. 11 of every year to coincide with the Remembrance Day (POPPY Day) for the World War II veterans in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
He said that Nigeria changed the celebration of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day to January of every year in commemoration of the end of the Nigerian Civil War.
The Chairman of the Committee, Maj.-Gen. Banjiram, in his remarks, said that the remembrance was a yearly ritual observed for fallen heroes, who had paid the supreme price for the nation.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Col. Micah Gayya (rtd), thanked Aliyu and assured him that they would not disappoint him.