The Nigerian Army DSSC which means Direct Short Service is a type of commission in the Nigerian Army used to recruit graduates into the Nigerian Army. If you are not a graduate, you won’t be able to join the Nigerian Army through the DSSC. Now let’s look at the Nigerian Army DSSC Rank.
Please note that there is another commission which is also conducted by the Nigerian Army know as SSC which means Short Service Commission. It also meant for graduate. We have written a post about the difference between DSSC And SSC In The Nigerian Army. So for this post, we will only be talking about the DSSC Ranks And Salary.
The Nigerian Army DSSC Ranks is also listed when we wrote about the Nigerian Army ranks and Salary, though it is not well stated that this one is for DSSC or SSC but all the commissioned Officers ranks is the same depending on where you are starting your rank from. This simply means that what ever that is paid to a lieutenant who joined the Army SSC or DSSC or even regular cadets will be paid the same amount of money.
Before we talk about Salary, let’s first see the ranks which is available in the Nigerian Army DSSC.
Nigerian Army DSSC Rank
The Nigerian Army DSSC Rank starts from Lieutenant. We explained this when we wrote about the difference between DSSC and SSC in the Nigerian Army. Below is the complete Ranks in the Nigerian Army DSSC.
- Lieutenant
- Captain
- Major
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Colonel
- Brigadier General.
The ranks listed above are the ranks which is available in the Nigerian Army DSSC. Now let’s look at the salary which is paid to the Nigerian Army DSSC.
Nigerian Army DSSC Salary
- Lieutenant-N180,500
- Captain-N220,500
- Major-N300,500
- Lieutenant colonel- N350,500
- Colonel-N550,500
- Brigadier General- N750,500
The Salary mentioned above is the salary which is paid to the DSSC Officers. Though there may be some little changes sometimes on their Salaries but it won’t have much difference from the figures we mentioned above.
