A total of three hundred and twenty military personnel will retire from the armed forces next week.

Commandant, Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre, Air Vice Marshal Austine Jekenu told newsmen at the centre in Oshodi, Lagos, that the retiring military men were drawn from the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.

Jekenu said the retiring servicemen comprised of two hundred and sixty-two from the Nigerian Army, forty-four from the Nigerian Navy and fourteen from the Nigerian Air Force would be graduating from the Centre, after going through months of intensive training on skills acquisition and entrepreneurship.

He said the training was to prepare the retirees for life after military service, saying the centre had the mandate to provide necessary training geared towards preparing retiring servicemen for reintegration into civil life.

Jekenu said the initiative was to enable the beneficiaries adjust and appropriately blend with the peculiarities of retirement and contribute actively to national economy as worthy civilians, urging all the retiring servicemen to positively contribute to boost national economy in whatever business they engaged in.

“The centre graduates 2 courses annually and it is on record that we have trained over 41, 000 ex-servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces since its inception,” he said.

The commandant, who said the passing out ceremony for the course participants would hold on June 22, added that the Minister for Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, would grace the occasion.