The Nigerian Army has begun a major push to modernise its inspection and compliance framework with the opening of the Directorate of Inspections and Compliance (DI&C) Project Inspection Workshop 2026 at the Army War College Nigeria (AWCN), Asokoro, Abuja.
The four-day workshop, which opened on Monday, January 20, 2026, is hosted by the Office of the Chief of Army Staff through the Directorate of Inspections and Compliance. It is themed “Leveraging Technology: Panacea for Enhanced Inspection and Compliance.”
The initiative is aimed at strengthening accountability, transparency and efficiency in the execution of projects across the Nigerian Army by adopting technology-enabled inspection processes.
Declaring the workshop open, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, represented by the Chief of Logistics (Army), Major General Adekunle Adeyinka, described the programme as timely and critical to the ongoing transformation of the Nigerian Army.
According to him, the increasingly complex and dynamic operational environment has made traditional manual inspection methods inadequate.
“The Army must embrace integrated and technology-driven inspection solutions to meet contemporary challenges,” Adeyinka said, stressing that inspections remain a vital command tool for translating policies, plans and projects into measurable and verifiable outcomes.
He added that technology-enabled inspections should not be misconstrued as fault-finding exercises, but rather as mechanisms for performance improvement, standardisation and institutional learning.
In his welcome address, the Director of the Directorate of Inspections and Compliance, Major General Auwalu Mahmuda, described the workshop as a deliberate and strategic response to present-day operational realities.
He said the programme was designed to align inspection and compliance functions with the transformation agenda of the Chief of Army Staff.
“Effective project inspection is a critical enabler of operational readiness, optimal resource utilisation, fiscal discipline and institutional credibility,” Mahmuda noted.
Participants at the workshop include senior officers, officers from formations and units within and around Abuja, as well as technical experts and resource persons drawn from engineering, technology and compliance-related fields.
