The USA Military Conflict School (USAWC) has posthumously conferred considered one of its highest worldwide honours on the immediate-past Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), late Lieutenant Basic Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja.
LEADERSHIP stories that Lagbaja was twenty third Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Military.
The School on Monday, October 13, 2023, inducted the late Military Chief into its prestigious Worldwide Corridor of Fame (IHOF) in the course of the opening ceremony of the continued Affiliation of the USA Military (AUSA) Annual Conference on the Walter E. Washington Conference Centre, Washington D.C., United States of America.
A press release by the Director, Military Public Relations, Lt-Col Appolonia Anele, stated the Commandant of the USAWC, Main Basic Trevor J. Bredenkamp, in a solemn however but vibrant ceremony, introduced the posthumous honour in acknowledgment of the late Basic Lagbaja’s sterling management, visionary service and distinctive contributions to the development of army professionalism and worldwide peace and safety.
The popularity underscored his excellent achievements as an alumnus of the establishment who rose meritoriously to the zenith of his army profession as Nigeria’s twenty third Chief of Army Staff.
In response to the assertion, the late Lieutenant Basic Lagbaja was one of many six eminent inductees honoured at this 12 months’s occasion.
His induction represented a historic milestone as he turned the first-ever Nigerian Military officer to be inducted within the USAWC Worldwide Corridor of Fame within the establishment’s illustrious 124-year historical past, a testomony to his enduring legacy of excellence and repair to humanity.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Basic Olufemi Oluyede, was represented on the ceremony by Main Basic Adeleke Ayannuga, who acquired the honour alongside Mrs Maria Abiodun Lagbaja on behalf of the late COAS.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Basic Olufemi Oluyede, expressed profound pleasure on this singular honour bestowed upon one of many Nigerian Military’s most illustrious and visionary leaders. He affirmed that the popularity not solely immortalises the late Lieutenant Basic Lagbaja’s distinguished service but additionally reinforces the Nigerian Military’s dedication to the common beliefs of professionalism, self-discipline and dedication to international peace and safety.
Among the many dignitaries in attendance have been the Director Basic, Nigerian Military Heritage and Future Centre, Main Basic G.O. Adesina; Director Basic, Defence Headquarters Joint Doctrine and Warfare Centre, Main Basic G.T.O. Ajetunmobi, Mrs Deborah Aboderin of the Workplace of Safety Cooperation, U.S. Embassy, Abuja.
Additionally current have been the Nigerian Defence Attaché to the USA, Military officers present process greater skilled army schooling on the Nationwide Protection College, Washington D.C, the USA Military Conflict School and the U.S. Military Command and Basic Workers School, alongside different senior Nigerian Military officers taking part within the AUSA 2025 Annual Conference.
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