The Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi, Lagos has begun training for over 600 soldiers due for disengagement in six months.

The personnel drawn from the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air Force, were inaugurated into a six-month skills acquisition programme that would equip them for post service life.

Addressing the personnel, the Commandant, NAFRC, Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Bashir Mamman, said the course would prepare them for meaningful and beneficial engagements in future.

He said the goal was to continue to provide opportunities for retiring personnel to obtain quality vocational training and management education in many relevant fields of endeavour aimed at adequately preparing them to face the challenges of re-integrating into civil life.

?During the course, you will receive lectures and practical lessons from resource persons and specialists on a broad range of topics including entrepreneurship and general management, health, retirement planning, financial management, security and safety practice as well as ICT to mention but a few.

?These lectures are specifically designed to help you build up profitable post-retirement ventures towards job creation, self-sustenance and worthwhile living after disengaging from the Armed Forces of Nigeria.

It is my pleasure to inform you that feedback from past participants who benefited from past training indicates that many of the graduates of this centre are thriving entrepreneurs in a wide range of business ventures across the country .

?A significant number of them are even employers of labour and have expanded their businesses beyond their immediate localities.

?It is, therefore, our hope and earnest desire that upon completion of this course, each of you would have obtained the necessary skills to operate profitably in the open market that is highly competitive,? Mamman told the trainees.

He reminded them the training was for them to develop themselves for theirs and their family?s good, stressing the need for them to be committed to the course.

?It is imperative that I emphasise how crucial it is for you to utilize the allocated time in your training program effectively, as it is the primary determining factor for your success on this course.

?I am positive that you will learn a lot within this period if you apply yourself and make judicious use of your time? ?So, do your best to maximize this learning opportunity. You must also be cordial and respectful to the centre?s instructors, academic and administrative staff as well as your fellow participants.

Insubordination to your fellow participants who are your superiors will be met with serious sanctions. Mutual respect is, therefore, expected from each and everyone of you,? the Commandant added.

During the course, Mamman warned that the personnel must not engage in self-medication and must disclose any serious illness at the medical center? ?Accordingly, a mandatory 90 per cent attendance is required for issuance of the Certificate of Course Completion at the end of the course. Participants would be denied certificates and sanctioned for prolonged absence without due authorisation, or misconduct and acts of indiscipline,? he warned. (The Nation: Text, Excluding Headline)

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