President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will visit the former enclave of Boko Haram, Sambisa forest by next week Monday to declare open the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship, NASAC 2017.
The military had in December captured the forest from Boko Haram and had subsequently declared the former game reserve as a proposed site for military institution, building roads into it and kick-starting the new status of Sambisa Forest with the hosting of the annual Small Arms Competition.
The Chief of Training and Operations, Nigerian Army, David Amadu, during a press briefing today Friday in Maiduguri to kick-start the NASAC 2017 championship, said the championship would be formally declared open by the President on Monday, March 27, 2017.
He said the championship which drew to a close on Friday, March 31st has lined up a chain of activities which would include medical outreach to Bama, Konduga, and Magumeri IDPs camps, educational training for Army Education Corps in Maiduguri , security awareness meetings with the traditional rulers and distribution of relief materials to IDPs within Maiduguri and surrounding towns.
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