Nigerian Army Laments as South East Youths Shun Army Recruitment 

The Nigerian Army has lamented the shortage in number of youths from the South East zone in enlisting in the Military service.

Leader of the 2025 Army Recruitment Enlightenment Team, Brigadier General Chima Ekeator who made this known at the weekend in a town hall meeting in Enugu with local government council chairmen, traditional rulers, presidents-general of town unions and other stakeholders said it is high time they changed their attitude to reverse the trend.

Ekeator explained that they had observed in the last few years that youths from the South-East zone have kept shunning their slots in the recruitment exercise with the number decreasing yearly.

“Take for example, Enugu State was given about 200 slots, but the people who made it were never up to 100 due to poor application. This has also become a recurring decimal in other states in the South East.

“Kaduna State recorded over 3,000 applications in the ongoing 2025 recruitment exercise while Enugu was still struggling to get up to 100 applicants.

“I call on youths of the zone to apply en masse in the ongoing 2025 recruitment exercise to fill their quotas the way their counterparts in other zones are doing” the Brigadier General said.

He dismissed allegations that people of South East origin were always the first to be sent to the battle front and were being killed in their numbers in the army adding that officers from the region were also holding strategic positions in the army presently.

Elevator urged the youths to denounce all falsehoods out there that are making them shun military enlistment and enlist for the 2025 recruitment.