In my few years of being a serving personnel’s spouse, we have lived in three accommodations and visited over seven temporary accommodations’ my husband has had course to stay in on postings or deployments. Besides the number, size and the intensity of mosquitoes’ bites experienced in Kontagora, I have observed that in every accommodation we […]

Thank you for your enduring love and never ending sacrifice to your families; the work you do is truly amazing and appreciated. We thank you for keeping the home front going always. We love you and cherish your service and sacrifices💗❣️

You can be anything you want to be they say, but can you actually be anything you want to be? I’ve had this idea of sharing my personal experience as a military spouse a long time ago and did you ask what has held me back? A lot; the uncertainties of whether or not it […]

The military community is a social environment that maintains a viable symbiotic relationship with the surrounding communities around it which has thus, paved a way for the presence and services of civilians that provide different kinds of support services. These are menial and domestic roles including but not limited to- artisans, technicians, labourers and in […]

Military husbands, wives and their entire families like other regular families are dependable friends, passionate lovers, caring and dotting partners and protective parents. Their services are two pronged; first to country and then to their families. they love these two in equal measure and would easily give their lives for either cause. We celebrate their love […]

Thank you for your service. #thankasoldierthisyear

We remember and wholeheartedly appreciate your sacrifices. #AFRD23

Does it get better, or is it you who gets stronger? As the life you probably ‘prepared’ for starts to unfold and you try to have a grasp of its speed, twists and turns; you would observe the different ways that the other military spouses around you have adapted to survive. Some women form prayer […]

There is such a time in every military wife’s life when her husband is either in the field, on course, foreign posting or exercise. The wife doubles as the father and mother to the children and she’ll have to manage everything all by herself including emergencies at night; she drives herself to the hospital for […]

Today, like many other days, we remember the sacrifices of the brave men and women of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, most of whom have laid down their lives for God and country. Your sacrifices are not in vain and it is in your honour that we hold this yearly to remember your selflessness, service, […]