The Nigerian government has disclosed that it will soon embark on massive recruitment in an effort to increase the manpower of the military to end insecurity.

The Minister of Defense, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd.) said this while briefing a combined troop of the Nigerian Navy, Airforce and Army on Sunday at the Operation Lafiya Dole theater command in Maiduguri.

He said: “We have studied the requirements; that’s why we are here to verify and see how best we can solve these problems in order to bring this war to an end in favor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Very soon we will embark on the recruitment of other soldiers and officers so that we can improve on manpower holdings of these operations.'

“We will bring new equipment, new skills and I’ll want all of you to benefit from them so that you can be more effective, more efficient in this assignment."