Nigerian Army Ends Admission of Young Fighters - Report

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The Nigerian army needs to review Jonathan's administration policy that allows cadets to be admitted to the Combat Course of the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA).

According to Punch, a recommendation by the Armed Forces Council, opened by President Muhammadu Buhari last week, called for the abolition of the program.

Buhari would also ratify the "National Defense Policy 2017" (revised); Harmonized Terms and Conditions for Service Agents 2017 "last week.

Recommendation; 19 Harmonized by the Nigerian Armed Forces, which saw Punch, says: "Eliminate gradual training of regular combatants.

The measure described as an obstacle in the fight for gender equality, phase-outs, would be carried out by Muslim elders without a northern name that does not want a woman to reach a small army.

Source in the Army, Punch said, "Muslim leaders in the north want to avoid the situation in which one day women will lead the army and give people orders."

While the Nigerian armed forces always recognized women, they were always limited to non-combat jobs, limiting their career.

The source explained that there are different types of commissions in the army - Regular Commissions for Fighting the Short Term Commission, Direct Rehular Commission, Short-Term Direct Service and Executive Council.

However, only officers who have been admitted to the regular commission of forces can compete for one of the services or become the chief of the defense chief. The source said:

It is only the Regular Combatant Commission that can give an officer the opportunity to aspire to head any of the services or rise to become the Chief of Defence Staff, while the others have limited career path.
If the military is able to scrap this programme, women will never be able to head any of the arms of the Nigerian military.
The northern Muslim leaders want to prevent a situation where one day, a woman will lead the army and give orders to men.

Of the first set of women admitted into the commission, dubbed the Jonathan Queens, only 1 muslim from the North, Fatima Saleh, enlisted.

She had reportedly said, in 2013, that her Arabic school teacher had advised her against enlisting.

The source, general, who spoke to Punch, said those pushing to scrap the programme have convinced President Buhari that women were not doing well. He said:

When we started the training of female cadets in 2011, we never thought it would be successful. When the first set of women cadets graduated from the academy last year, women won three awards, including the best award in the navy category.
A female cadet, C. Lord-Mallam, won the Navy Gold award which is the highest in the navy category. The Army Silver award, which is the second highest in the army, went to a female cadet, K. O Dayo-Karim. The Air Force Silver award was also won by a female cadet, O. S Ijelu.
However, some northern conservatives were not happy about it because most of the female cadets are either Christians from the South and northern minority groups or Muslims from the South and Middle Belt.
Dissatisfied with how things are turning out, the northern Muslim leaders lobbied the military authorities to stop the programme for women.
I was informed that the women were trained just like the men were trained. They were not given any preferential treatment. Two of these female cadets beat their male counterparts to win placement at the United States Military Academy in West Point and they are doing well.
It is unfortunate that while the western world and even other African nations are progressing, Nigeria is going backwards.

While the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, was unreachable for comments on the change of policy, another source at the military said the move, if it came to fruition, would not affect the 2018 NDA admission. He said:

The NDA has already begun receiving applications for the 70th regular course since October 20, 2017. The application, which will run till February 2018, is open to both male and female Nigerians.
So, there is no going back on what the NDA has started. It will be a public disaffection if the military reneges on what it has advertised and we are a professional arm and cannot do that.

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