President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed immediate payment of pending group life assurance to families of deceased soldiers.
The President also directed the Armed Forces and other security agencies to decisively deal with all security challenges facing the country.
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, announced this while declaring open the COAS combined second and third quarters conference 2023 at the Army Headquarters Command Officers’ Mess yesterday in Abuja.
He said: “The Federal Government has a scheme, called the Group Life Assurance. It is an insurance scheme designed to give succour to families of our departed heroes.
“This scheme works in such a way that the government pays premium to the insurance companies and, in the event of death, the insurance companies pay claims to the families of our departed heroes
