History


History was one of the five programmes established at the beginning of the 1985/1986 Academic year under the new status of NDA as a degree awarding institution.  The Department started with fifteen (15) cadets.  Pioneer staff of the Department included Dr LO Amadi, Dr OE Tangban, Dr AE Ekoko and Dr CN Ubah, (all now Professors).  The number of academic and administrative staff gradually grew to the current strength of twelve and six respectively.  The Department now has the highest number of Professors in the Academy.  It has graduated over 100 Commissioned Officers for all the three services of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The BA Honours degree in History and International Studies aims at producing for the Nigerian Armed Forces, officers who possess a competent knowledge of history of Nigeria, Africa and the wider world.  The programme attaches importance to the military dimension of historical experience since it will provide the officer cadets with the relevant knowledge as commissioned officers.  The discipline inculcates thinking in the cadets and makes them develop analytical and critical approaches to issues and balanced judgment associated with it.
    
ACADEMIC STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT

Presently, an Academic Strategic Plan does not exist.  It is however imperative that for almost two decades of awarding degrees and in view of the progressive growth of the Department, a concrete plan be drawn up.  This will re-position the Department to enable it meet with the challenges of modern trends.  The Department changed its nomenclature from Department of History to Department of History and International Studies.  This was in line with the National University Commission (NUC) directive.
 

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