This article will provide the full list of all Army Barracks in Nigeria and their locations.
Army barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnels.
These structures keeps military personnels away from the outside world pending when their services are needed.
There are many army barracks in Nigeria and this is owing the large size of personnel of Nigeria Army.
Infact, almost every state in Nigeria has an Army Barracks or cantonments established in them.
These Army cantonments and Barracks are different from others types of military and Army formations scattered across Nigeria.
A typical Nigeria Army Barracks and cantoment has essentially all basic facilities such as markets, hospital,worship centers, schools, games facilities and sometimes financial institutions.
All these helps keep and provide comfort and limit the movement of military personnels to within the barracks.
Below are some of the mostly found infrastructure inside a typical Nigeria Army Barracks and military cantonments.
Military Hospitals
It is easy to find hospitals inside army barracks and cantonments which helps cater for health challenges of army officers,their families and other citizens within the barracks.
Worship Centers
Worship centers such as churches and mosques are easily found in military cantonments and army barracks. This institution takes care of the spiritual needs of the military personnels and those with the Army Barracks.
Military Prison
This is correction facility found inside army barracks and cantonments which is used to correct erring officers and even civilians. It is a detention facility where officers are kept pending determination of punishment for their offence.
The Mess
This is a designated area where military personnel socialize, eat and relax. It part of army barracks that takes care of social life of army personnels within the cantonments.
Market
This another very important part of the military barracks in Nigeria and usually called mami market. It the approved part of the Barracks where buying and selling of goods and services can be provided within the barracks
Officers Quarters
This is buildings within the cantonments where army officers lives. It a private residence for soldiers and officers withing the barracks and is highly restricted from civilians except on special invitation.
Full List of Army Barracks, Cantonments & Locations in Nigeria
As stated earlier, almost every state in Nigeria has a military/army barracks and cantonments in Nigeria.
These army barracks and cantonments are situated at specific part of every state which the army consider conducive for both training and habitation.
Here is states in Nigeria and location of Army Barracks in them.
Location of Army Barracks in Abia State
14 Brigade Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Barracks, Ohafia, Abia State
Location of Army Barracks in Adamawa State
Army Barracks Road Nyibango Jimeta Yola Adamawa State.
Location of Army Barracks in Akwa Ibom
6battalions Barrack,ibagwa-Abak. Akwa -Ibom State Nigeria
Location of Army Barracks in Anambra State
Onitsha Cantonment, Enugu- Onitsha Express Way ,Onitsha, Anambra state.
Location of Army Barracks in Bauchi State
Shadawanka Barracks Bauchi, Jos Road Bauchi, Bauchi.
Location of Army Barracks in Bayelsa State
16 Brigade of the Nigerian Army located on Elebele Road, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Location of Army Barracks in Benue State
Naites Nasme barracks, 72 Special Forces Battalion, located in Makurdi, Benue State.
Location of Army Barracks in Borno State
7 DIV , Maiduguri, Borno State
Location of Army Barracks in Cross Rivers State
13 Brigade Barracks, Calabar, Cross Rivers State
Location of Army Barracks in Delta State
Army Barracks Effurun, Warri
Location of Army Barracks in Ebonyi State
215m Military Cantonment Nkwagu Abakaliki
Address of Army Barracks in Edo State
Army Barracks, Ekewan Road, Benin-City Edo state
Location of Army Barracks in Lagos State
- 174 Battalion, Nigerian Army barracks located in Odoguyan Ikorodu, Lagos State.
- Abalti Barracks, located in Surulere, Lagos. It is the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps.
- Albitic barracks in Surulere, Lagos, is the headquarters of the Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps.
- AN barracks is located in Yaba, Lagos State.
Arakan Barracks is located in Apapa Lagos, Lagos State. It is the umbrella of the Nigerian - Army Finance Corp, housing the Nigerian Army School of Finance and Administration.
- Ashanti barracks is located along Mobil Road, Ajegunle, Lagos State.
- Beho Beho barracks, located in Lagos State.
Ikeja barracks, also known as Ikeja Cantonment, is located in Ikeja, Lagos State.
Marda barracks, in Yaba. It is located right opposite Healthy Pulse pharmacy and supermarket, 346 Herbert Macaulay Street, Yaba, Lagos. - Ojo Barracks, also called Ojo Cantonment, is located in Tedi Village, Ojo in Lagos.
- Tego barracks on Bonny Street, Badia in Lagos State. It is the intelligence arm of the Nigerian Army School.
Location of Army Barracks in Rivers state
Bori camp Ikwerre Road – Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Other Locations and Full List of Army Barracks in Nigeria
- Dalet barracks (Nigerian Army 1 Division Headquarters) – Kawo, Kaduna State
- Bukavu barracks – Kano State
Kalapanzin barracks ( 312 Artillery Regiment, - Kaduna) – Kaduna State
Ribadu Cantonment (Old Nigerian Defense Academy) – Kaduna State - Katsina barracks – Jibia road, Katsina State
- Kotoko barracks – Kaduna State
- Chindit barracks – Zaria, Kaduna State
- Mokola Military barracks – Oyo State
- Osun Army Barracks – Osun State
- Letmauk – Home to the 4th Battalion in Mokola – Ibadan, Oyo State
- Odogbo barracks (Odoko-Idogbo, Army Barracks) – Ibadan, Oyo State
- Lafenwa barracks (Nyangoa barracks) – Abeokuta, Ogun State
- Alamala barracks – Ogun State
- Abakpa barracks – Enugu State
- Awkunano barracks – Enugu State
- 22 Armoured Brigade (Sobi barracks) – Ilorin, Kwara State
- Rukuba barracks – Jos, Plateau State
Keffi barracks (Shittu Alao barracks) – Jos-Abuja road, Keffi, Nassarawa State - Gado Nasko barracks (Lungi barracks) – Abuja
- Yakubu Gowon barracks – Abuja
- Sani Abacha barracks – Abuja
- Camp Wu Bassey – Muritala way, next to Sheraton hotel, Abuja
- Aguiyi-Ironsi Cantonment – Asokoro, Abuja
46 - Fort IBB barracks (former Fort Obasanjo) – Abuja
- Mogadishu or Abacha barracks – Abuja
Fort Nagwamatse barracks – Kantagora, Niger State - Artillery Brigade barracks (31 Artillery Brigade Minna Cantonment) – Minna, Niger State
- Colito barracks – Kwara State.