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Nigeria, Britain plan joint military exercise

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    Britain and Nigeria are to hold joint military exercises early in the year 2000, Defence Minister Theophilus Danjuma told officers and men of the National War College in Abuja on Tuesday.

    ‘The Guardian’ reported Danjuma, a former army general, as lamenting the lack of training during the period of military rule in Nigeria. However, he said, renewed emphasis would be placed on training so that professionalism would be restored to the military.

    Danjuma said military instructors would be retrained and that some friendly countries had already offered help.

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