المدرسة العسكرية النيجيرية

المدرسة العسكرية النيجيرية في زاريا ، والمعروفة باسم NMS، هي مدرسة داخلية عسكرية في جمهورية نيجيريا الاتحادية ، تابعة للقوات المسلحة النيجيرية .

تنقسم المدرسة إلى 5 أجنحة رئيسية:

• المقر الرئيسي
• الجناح العسكري
• جناح التعليم
• كتيبة الأولاد
• الشركة الإدارية.

The Nigerian Military School gives its boy soldiers both academic and military training. Every boy soldier as the students are called has one day a week dedicated strictly to military training while the other four days of the week are dedicated to academic training. Similar to civil secondary schools, the students sit for the West African Senior School Certificate Exam prior to graduation. The boys join the Nigerian Army as private soldiers on passing out from the Nigerian Military school.^[4]

The initial group of boy soldiers were known as the "First Platoon" who were sons and wards of serving military personnel. However its military history can be traced to 1951 when the idea of establishing "Boys Company" along the same pattern of the Boys Wing of British Army was conceived for each of the West African Colonies Namely: the Gambia, Gold coast(Ghana), Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The Nigerian military school prides itself due to its numerous successes in regional and national quizzes, drama and sporting competition. It is also said to have one of the highest educational and academic standards in the country, more than most conventional civil high schools in Nigeria. It further prides itself in producing very notable persons within and outside Nigeria.

NMS has produced numerous Senior Military officers and Senior Staff in both Government and Private sectors. till date it has produced a military vice president, four chiefs of defence staff and a president of the united nations general assembly. Some of its alumni include

• Tunde Idiagbon
• Joseph Garba
• John Shagaya
• Jeremiah Useni
• John Inienger
• Salihu Ibrahim
• Buba Marwa
• John Dungs
• Yakubu Mu'azu
• Alexander Ogomudia
• Abubakar Sani Bello
• Abdulkareem Adisa
• Senator David Mark
• George Alily
• Raji Rasaki
• Abdussamad Dasuki
• Zamani Lekwot
• Abayomi Olonisakin
• Ola Ibrahim
• Emmanuel Ogalla
• Hassan Abubakar

In line with the structure of a battalion as the Military School changed from being Boy’s Company to a battalion status and to encourage sporting activities and competition as attendance increased, four companies were created: Exham, Inglis, FairBanks and Swynnerton. These names were later changed to Giffard, Tranchard, Whistler and Lugard.

As the School changed to School certificate status shortly after independence, the companies names were also changed to Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu and Kaduna. The new names were chosen to reflect the regional capitals of the country.

In 1976, two additional companies were added and the names were again changed. The new companies names reflected military company designations: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot.

One additional has been added: Golf, the 7th company. In late 2003, the School changed to the old names of Kaduna, Lagos, Ibadan and Enugu, with Abuja, Calabar and Zaria companies given to the additional new companies of Echo, Foxtrot and Gulf.^[3]

منذ تأسيسها، تولى قيادة المؤسسة العسكرية في أوقات مختلفة عدد من الضباط، وهم كالتالي:

• https://www.exboys.co.uk /الموقع الرسمي لخريجي المدرسة العسكرية النيجيرية، زاريا في المملكة المتحدة]
• https://www.nms1954.sch.ng / الموقع الرسمي للمدرسة العسكرية النيجيرية
• https://www.nmsexboys.com /موقع خريجي المدرسة العسكرية النيجيرية، زاريا]
• https://t.me/joinchat/MCU-bXHkJhAzZDVk /رابطة أولياء الأمور والمعلمين (PIA)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp0u0z6Zlh4&t=227s /clps
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLFg3Vlh4bE /clips