By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
The Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, and former Chief of Army Staff, His Excellency Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai (rtd), has advocated for continuous training among the Armed Forces of Nigeria as panacea for excellence in strategic leadership.
Ambassador Buratai made the assertion at the National Defence College Nigeria while presenting a lecture on Strategic Leadership to the participants of Course 30/2021 of the college.
During the lecture, he enumerated qualities of a good strategic leader which includeDefes emphasized the need for weight control policy to ensure that officers and soldiers are physically, medically and mentally fit to enable them to perform their jobs optimally.
General Buratai called for exposition of officers and soldiers to training courses both at home and abroad, inspiring a shared vision, to inculcated core values; ethics and standards to improve the performance of the Nigerian Army.
According to him, “when you talked about strategic leadership, so many things comes into mind especially as regards those could be referred strategic leaders. A Strategic leader is the one that has experience, as stated by General Douglas McArthur.
He called for the need to improved on innovation as it is the key to achieve the vision and goals in every task.
“You must develop the capacity of your officers and men. It would help if you were versatile and adaptive. Every leader aims to get the job done, through exemplary leadership” Burutai said.
He also added that “We have made Nigeria Army a modern army, we have made Nigeria Army to be professional by introducing many Infrastructures like the Nigeria Army Warfare Research. My regrets is not discovering our Initiative of MRAP and many war instruments but we thank God as it has been introduced”
In his response, the commandant, Rear. Admiral Bashir said that General Buratai has unique and practical leadership worthy of emulation.
The commandant noted that the unique qualities of General Buratai had made him to be selected as one of the strategic leaders to be studied in the college.
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