AMERICA’S wartime presidents have developed a ploy over the decades to boost the morale of their soldiers and civilian population: they undertake overt or covert trips to the war front. It hasn’t failed to achieve that objective, according to the record in the books. Let’s take a look at three instances in the history of the country. On December 2, 1952, President-elect Dwight Eisenhower went to Korea during the war that reshaped the map of the Korean Peninsula.
President
Muhammadu Buhari on Friday directed the Ministry of Defence to produce a
plan for the establishment of a military industrial complex for the
local production of weapons for the use of the nation’s armed forces.
According
to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,
Garba Shehu, the President gave the directive at the graduation ceremony
of the National Defence College, Abuja.
He said
the location production of weapons was meant to end the current
over-dependence on other countries for military equipment and
logistics.

