Today Is Armed Forces Remembrance Day
Tuesday, January 15, 2013Omoba
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President
Goodluck Jonathan at last year’s Remembrance Day
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The day is marked by with a Remembrance Day parade
at the Cenotaph in Abuja and in the 36 state capitals. The ceremony includes 21
gun salute, playing of the Last Post, a minute's silence, laying of wreaths and
release of pigeons to symbolize peace.
Armed Forces Day, also
known as Remembrance Day, is celebrated on 15 January. It was formally marked
on 11 November of every year to coincide with the Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) for
the World War II veterans in the British Commonwealth of Nations. But it was
changed to 15 January of every year in Nigeria in commemoration of the
surrender of Biafran troops to the Federal troops on 15 January 1970 thus
signaling the end of the Nigerian Civil War.
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