President Muhammadu Buhari, has boasted that his administration has been able to restore Nigeria’s hitherto lost sanity and territorial integrity, hailing the country’s Armed Forces for making his dream possible.

He asked the nation’s security outfits not to rest in their oars, saying they must keep the pace of actions they undertook in seeing the total defeat of insurgence in the country,noting that the country was proud of them.

Speaking, in Abuja, at a live video call to Nigeria’s troops battling insurgency in the North East as well as international peace troops in Liberia, during the occasion of the 2017 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration, the president, who expressed satisfaction with the successes recorded so far by the troops not only in restoring peace in the country but African sub-region, asked the Armed Forces to maintain the tempo in its operations whenever in need.

The president insisted that he was impressed with Armed Forces performance just as he said the rest of the nation was con­cerned about their welfare, assuring the troops that government was with them in what they were doing, adding that his administration would always respond to their operational needs so as to achieve their set goals.

Earlier, President Buhari led senior government officials to lay wreaths at the National Military Cenotaph in Abuja.

The ceremony is held every January 15 in honor and memory of Nigerian military per­sonnel who died in active service to the nation. The president arrived at the occasion, and after the national anthem, reviewed the guard of honour mounted by the Nige­rian Army, Navy, Airforce and the Nigerian Legion.

He thereafter proceeded to lay a wreath at the foot of the tomb of the ‘Unknown Sol­dier’ at the Military Cenotaph, opposite the Eagles Square, after Christian and Muslim prayers as well as observance of a minute silence and one-round of gun salute were made.

Thereafter, Vice-President Yemi Osinba­jo laid the wreath at the Ceno­taph, followed by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; House of Rep­resentatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara; and the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen in that order.

Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello; Chief of De­fence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonishakin; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Ibok Eket-Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, also laid their wreaths. Not left out of the wreath-laying were the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has prayed for families of Nigeria’s soldiers who died in line of duty, as the country marked the Armed Forces Remembrance Day.

She also prayed that the labours, love and sacrifices of the fallen heroes would never be forgotten.

Buhari, expressed optimism that the time had come when Nigeria would be free from terrorism.