The Cross River State government marked the 2015 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Calabar with the laying of the memorial wreath by the state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke.
The Armed Forces Day, also known as Remembrance Day, and it is celebrated on 15th of January in Nigeria to honor the soldiers who lost their lives during Nigeria’s civil war.
It was previously celebrated on 11 November of every year to coincide with the Remembrance Day for the World War II veterans in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
But it was changed to 15th of January in Nigeria in commemoration of the surrender of Biafran troops to the Federal troops on 15 January 1970, thus concluding the Nigerian Civil War that sought to tear apart the unity of the country.
source crossriverwatch
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