{"id":158994,"date":"2025-04-10T07:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team"},"modified":"2025-04-15T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:33:08","slug":"only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team","title":{"rendered":"Only 53 Abia youths applied for 200 Army recruitment slots \u2013 Awareness Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The team leader, Year 2025 Nigerian Army Recruitment Awareness Team, Brigadier General Chima Ekeator has sensitized youths from the South East on the need to take up the slots given to the zone in the Nigerian Army recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Ekeator, who visited Governor Alex Otti in Umuahia on Wednesday, said that the leadership of the Nigerian Army observed that the slots given to the Southeastern States during recruitment were barely taken up by applicants from the region, hence they were sent to sensitize youths from the region on the need to take up the slots.<\/p>\n<p>He regretted that the region is loosing out during recruitment exercises, citing a case of last year where Abia was given almost 200 slots but only 53 slots were taken up.<\/p>\n<p>He added that it was the same case in other Southeastern states.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that his team had gone round and held town hall meetings with traditional rulers and mayors to ensure the message reached the target audience.<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Governor Otti promised to sensitize Abia youths for recruitment into the Nigerian Army.<\/p>\n<p>Otti, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Caleb Ajagba, said that his administration would set up a necessary structure to ensure that those that fall within the age bracket were regularly sensitized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will help to make sure that Abians, especially the youths will embrace this opportunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the Army for providing security in parts of the country, displaying professionalism on duty and for ensuring that every part of Nigeria was carried along in its recruitment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The team leader, Year 2025 Nigerian Army Recruitment Awareness Team, Brigadier General Chima Ekeator has sensitized youths from the South East on the need to take up the slots given to the zone in the Nigerian Army recruitment. Ekeator, who visited Governor Alex Otti in Umuahia on Wednesday, said that the leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":158993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1208,46,254],"class_list":["post-158994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-abia","tag-army","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only 53 Abia youths applied for 200 Army recruitment slots \u2013 Awareness Team - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The team leader, Year 2025 Nigerian Army Recruitment Awareness Team, Brigadier General Chima Ekeator has sensitized yout ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only 53 Abia youths applied for 200 Army recruitment slots \u2013 Awareness Team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The team leader, Year 2025 Nigerian Army Recruitment Awareness Team, Brigadier General Chima Ekeator has sensitized yout ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-10T06:54:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-15T11:33:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744259574.620198.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Only 53 Abia youths applied for 200 Army recruitment slots \u2013 Awareness Team\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-10T06:54:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-15T11:33:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team\"},\"wordCount\":277,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744259574.620198.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia\",\"army\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/only-53-abia-youths-applied-for-200-army-recruitment-slots-awareness-team\",\"name\":\"Only 53 Abia youths applied for 200 Army recruitment slots \u2013 Awareness Team - 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