The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya on Friday in Kaduna charged the passing-out cadets of Direct Short Service Course 26 (Army) and Direct Regular Course 30 (Nigerian Air Force) to serve the nation with honour and valour in the course of their military career.
Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement on Friday, said the COAS gave the charge while addressing the cadets, who are scheduled to graduate from the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, Kaduna, after nine months of intensive and rigorous military training at the military institution.
While charging them to deploy their intellectual ability and sense of patriotism in their various duty, COAS Yahya enjoined them to ensure that the professional tenets and core values imbibed in the Academy impact positively on their operational tasks and other assigned duties.
Yahya further urged the officer cadets to shun all forms of social vices that could derail or impede their avowed service to their fatherland.
