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Monday, July 1, 2013

Celebrating Nigeria’s First Female Cadets

 
 Since the establishment of the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1964, few changes have been as transformative as when in 2011 under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Academy was directed to adjust its all-male-officer structure to include female regular combatants and give females equal opportunity in the Nigerian military. And for the first time in the history of the country, females were admitted into the academy.

  All over the world, through cultures and times, women have rarely been