{"id":5419,"date":"2025-04-17T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:53:16","slug":"poor-outing-only-200-igbo-youths-registered-in-south-east-nigerian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/04\/17\/poor-outing-only-200-igbo-youths-registered-in-south-east-nigerian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Outing; Only 200 Igbo Youths Registered In South-East \u2013 Nigerian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"&quot;GoogleActiveViewInnerContainer&quot;style=&quot;left:0px;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%;position:fixed;pointer-events:none;z-index:-9999;&quot;\">\n<p>Leader, Army Force Headquarters Recruitment Sensitisation Team, Anambra State, Brig. General Chima Ekeator, has revealed that only 200 youths from the South-East have registered for the ongoing Nigerian Army recruitment in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ekeator disclosed at a sensitisation event organised for youth leaders and President-Generals (P-Gs) of different communities in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was a need to encourage youths in the various communities to take part in the exercise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-24\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1574186166799-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CJPUmc3y3owDFdNxpAQd52csfw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_6_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis sensitisation is necessary because, according to records, only 200 persons have registered from the South-East, while in other states, not less than 4000 persons have registered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on youth leaders and P-Gs to go to their communities to talk to the youths and encourage them to take part in the recruitment,\u201d Ekeator said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a remark, the Anambra Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, gave assurance that the government would continue to sensitise the youths to show interest in the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Soludo, who was represented by the Commissioner for Youth Development, Mr Patrick Aghambah, called on traditional rulers and P-Gs to collaborate in mobilising ten youths each from their communities to join the Nigerian Army through the ongoing recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Tony-Collins Nwabunwanne, the Commissioner, Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, said the recruitment targeted youths between the ages of 18 and 22 and encouraged them to enrol in the Army.<\/p>\n<p>This is currently less than a few days after the Nigerian Army raised the alarm over the poor enlistment of South East youths into the military service, and called for a change of attitude to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader, Army Force Headquarters Recruitment Sensitisation Team, Anambra State, Brig. General Chima Ekeator, has revealed that only 200 youths from the South-East have registered for the ongoing Nigerian Army recruitment in the country. Ekeator&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}