The Nigerian Army has urged the youths in Abia and other South-East States to answer a national clarion call by joining the Nigerian Army to serve the nation.
The call was made in Umuahia on Thursday during the first edition of an awareness campaign organized by the department of Civil-Military Affairs, Nigerian Army for youths, traditional rulers and other civil society groups.
The guest speaker at the programme, Maj Gen Gold Chibuisi (Rtd) who delivered a lecture, encouraged the youths of the South-East to stop shunning the Army service but to embrace career opportunities in the Army in fields of medicine, law, engineering and other areas.
He downplayed the fears about profiling of Igbo soldiers and dismissed the stories that junior soldiers from particular parts of the country were usually selected and sent to fight dangerous war fronts.
