Nigeria, June 24 -- Last week, I was among the invitees to an expanded conversation to commemorate the second anniversary of the Assumption of Command of Nigeria's service chiefs: Chief of Defence Staff, General CG Musa; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General TA Lagbaja of blessed memory; Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral EI Ogalla; and Air Marshal HB Abubakar, the Chief of the Air Staff. My former Editor-in-Chief at Blueprint Newspapers Limited, and now Minister of Information and National Orientation, Malam Mohammed Idris, chaired the occasion at the New Conference Hall of the Defence Headquarters. The CDS was the Chief Host.

In his welcome remarks, the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, noted that the e...