Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, said that the concept is to make the institution a solution provider and a centre of excellence for variety of technologically related ventures such as generation and armament production.
The minister of defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, has said that the wanted leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, is still alive but is on the run and could possibly be hiding in Sambisa forest.
President Muhammadu Buhari did not attend the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Army Small Arms championship, NASAC, holding at the Sambisa Forest, former stronghold of the Boko Haram Terrorist group as promised.