MEGA HOUSE PUBLISHERS PRESENTS "GEN. YAKUBU GOWON'S (Rtd.) ENCOMIUM FOR COL. PAUL OGBEBOR'S " A PIONEER CADET MEMOIR" OF NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY

"By the grace of God, I had on the 18th march 1967 as Nigeria's Head Of State and Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces adjudicated over the commissioning of the Pioneer Cadets of the Nigeria Defence Academy into the Nigeria Armed Forces. Thus my happiness is that after 47 years, I am again opportuned to write a commentary on the insider account of the making of the institution by an eye witness pioneer Cadet Paul Osakpamwan Ogbebor. This work is certainly a fulfilment of my commissioning address injunction to the cadets to create and maintain the standards  an reputation of this institution'. While I heartily congratulate the author of his scholarship, all other course one members and stakeholders, I am recommending this book as a must read in all military academies around the world, as a handbook for training military officers and gentlemen, as a basic text in all secondary and tertiary institutions in Africa, and as an excellent research material for libraries around the world"

--Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd.), Nigerian Head of State (1967-1975)