Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday represented President Bola Tinubu as Special guest of honour at the national arcade, Abuja venue of the activities marking the 2025 Armed forces Celebration and Remembrance Day parade.
Shettima led by the Commander of the Guards Brigade, represented President Tinubu, who is currently in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.
The Vice President, who led other senior government officials to lay the wreath at the cenotaph, also released white pigeons from the cage in commemoration of this year’s event.
The President had departed Abuja last Saturday to participate in the 2025 edition of Sustainability Week (ADSW 2025) taking place in Abu Dhabi.
Top government functionaries including the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas represented by Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru as well as members of the diplomatic corps, among others, witnessed the event.
The armed forces remembrance Day celebration is an annual event organised by the Ministry of Defence to commemorate the country’s fallen heroes who paid the ultimate price for the sake of humanity during the first and second World Wars, the Nigerian civil War, Peace Support Operations around the world, as well as various Internal Security Operations.
In commemoration of the end of the Nigerian civil war which occurred on 15th January, the date was chosen to mark the Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Nigeria.
Hitherto, it was marked on 11th November alongside other Commonwealth nations. Arise News