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Also known as: 72 Army Battalion| 72 BN| 72 Battalion| 72 Para Battalion| 72 Para Bn| 72 Para-Battalion| 72 Special Battalion [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Army  Military [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Borno [+] 20 January 2014 [+] January 2016 [+]
Guma [+] 21 June 2011 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Makurdi [+] 1989 [+] 30 January 2017 [+]

Memberships

Multi-unit organizations that this unit is part of
Name Country Other Names Classification First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Operation BOYONA [+] Nigeria [+] JTF [+]
JTF's Operation Boyona [+]
Joint Task Force [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+]
State Security Service (Internal Security) [+]
Operation Lafiya Dole [+] Nigeria [+] OPLD [+]
Operation Lafia Dole [+]
Operation Zaman Lafiya Dole [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+]
State Security Service (Internal Security) [+] 		January 2016 [+]
United Nations Mission in Liberia [+] Philippines [+] UNMIL [+] Peacekeeping [+] 4 August 2007 [+] 27 February 2008 [+]

Parent units

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Personnel

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Name Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Timothy Lagbaja [+] Lieutenant Colonel [+] Commander [+] 10 April 2013 [+] 15 July 2015 [+]
Adekunle Shodunke [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 1 February 2016 [+]

Sources

List of all sources used to evidence the data in this record Click the "+" symbol next to every data point in the record to see the sources used for that data point.
Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
04 June 2002 This Day Ogomudia Commissions Retired Soldiers' Houses
22 August 2003 This Day Soldier Dismissed for Dubious Enlistment
20 March 2004 This Day Federalism: Ngige Tackles FG
27 April 2004 Daily Trust Military Re-Affirms Support for Democracy
13 October 2004 Vanguard COAS Annual Conference Begins October in Owerri
21 March 2007 Daily Champion OBJ Presents 64 New Colours to Army
04 June 2007 Vanguard Security Operatives Rescue Kidnapped Chinese
01 August 2007 Daily Trust Why We Retired Army Generals - Yar'Adua
05 September 2007 Daily Champion Stop Molesting Civilians - GOC Orders Soldiers
16 October 2007 Leadership Ejection - Cross River Government Drags FG to Court
17 October 2007 Leadership Army Chief Commends Akwa Ibom Government On Niger Delta Crisis
08 July 2008 Vanguard GOC, Officials in Akure to Pay Striking Soldiers
29 October 2008 Vanguard I Was Ordered to Pay N120 Million to Peacekeepers, Says Soldier
10 January 2009 Vanguard Shake-Up in Army
17 March 2009 Daily Trust Benue Builds on Relationship With Army
19 April 2009 This Day I Transformed 34 Artillery Brigade'
02 October 2009 Vanguard We'll Checkmate Militants' Activities, Says Army Boss
17 March 2010 Daily Trust Much Ado About Dambazau
25 September 2010 Daily Champion Jonathan Sacks GOCs, Redeploys Others
27 September 2010 Daily Trust Sacked GOCs Get New Posts
25 September 2010 Leadership Jonathan Sacks GOCs
12 July 2011 Daily Trust Bomb Blast - Army Urged to Be On Alert
13 July 2011 Daily Champion Army Warns Troops on Security Consciousness
05 September 2011 Daily Trust Idoko Assumes Duty As GOC, 82 Division
25 January 2012 Vanguard 10 Die in Ebonyi Gun Duel
16 February 2012 Daily Trust GOCs Redeployed in Army Shake-Up
16 March 2012 Daily Trust Failing State, Fading Peacekeepers
24 July 2012 This Day Abia, Nigerian Army Tackle Vandalism of Shell's Facilities
18 August 2012 Leadership Ihejirika Heads for Defence, as Jonathan Shops for New Coas
15 September 2012 This Day Pipeline Vandals Are Enemies of Nigerian State
22 December 2012 Leadership GOC Urges Anambra Residents to Volunteer Information On Criminals
11 March 2013 Daily Trust 700 Soldiers Leave for Liberia
11 April 2013 Daily Trust 27 Killed in Fresh Tiv/Fulani Hostility in Benue
12 August 2013 This Day GOC Decries Shortage of Operational Materials to Tackle Oil Theft
23 August 2013 Vanguard Army Gets Gun-Boats to Figth Oil Theft in Niger
28 December 2013 This Day In Major Shake-Up, Army Redeploys Senior Officers
01 January 2014 Daily Trust Army Investigates Alleged Killing of Bus Driver By Soldier
23 August 2014 This Day Boko Haram - Minimah Hints of Major Army Shake Up
28 August 2014 This Day Protest of Soldiers' Wives
Nigerian Army Nigerian Army | 82 Division
06 December 2017 Daily Post Boko Haram: Rogers Nicholas replaces Attahiru as theatre commander
Defence Health Maintenance LTD Military Healthcare Facilities under DHML. 20 April 2016
14 July 2016 International Centre for Investigative Reporting Nigerian Army Injects New Life Into Counter-Insurgency Operations
07 January 2014 Leadership Counter-Terrorism, Fight Against Common Enemy - Army
24 March 2015 Leadership Army Organises Joint Poll Exercise For Security Agencies
15 July 2015 News Agency of Nigeria 72 Battalion lost 28 soldiers to insurgency in 4 years -- Commander
20 May 2015 Sahara Reporters Nigerian Army: No Longer Business As Usual With Buhari In Charge By Abiodun Ladepo
30 May 2017 The Sun (Nigeria) New Theatre Commander Ops LAFIYA DOLE, Gen Attahiru resumes
24 August 2014 The Nation (Nigeria) Boko Haram: Verbal attacks on soldiers unpatriotic- Orji
11 October 2017 The Nation (Nigeria) Soldiers recover arms in Imo
Training and Doctrine Command BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF BRIG GEN BA FIBOINUMAMA
08 April 2016 Voice of Nigeria Nigerian Army ends inter-brigade competition
08 January 2014 Radio Nigeria Brigadier General Laleye takes over as APR Director
Nigerian Army 82 Division
01 March 2016 Nigerian Army SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS EXTOL ARMY FOR MAKING REGION INVESTORS’ SAFE HAVEN
26 October 2006 Council on Foreign Relations Modern Military Force Structures
19 July 2016 Champion Newspapers Brigade commander denies capture of Bakassi, Akpabuyo LGAs
13 February 2017 Champion Newspapers GOC urges stakeholders to end perennial communal clashes in A’ibom, Cross River states
20 July 2014 Daily Trust Enugu Community, Army, Police On Warpath Over Death of Youth
17 July 2011 Daily Trust Two Brigade Wins WO-SNCO Army Competition
30 July 2015 Premium Times Major shake-up in Nigerian Army, 334 top officers redeployed
2011 United States Department of State et al Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest, 2010-2011 (Section IV: Country Training Activities - Africa, Volume I)
2014 United States Department of State Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest, 2013-2014
09 December 2015 The Tide Tambuwal Flays Poor Ranking Of Nigerian Varsities
16 February 2012 This Day 72 Generals Redeployed in Army Shake-up
13 February 2014 This Day Army, Navy Redeploy Senior Officers
14 September 2013 This Day GOC - New Security Role Won't Overwhelm Army
22 June 2011 This Day Jonathan, Security Chiefs Meet over Boko Haram 06 August 2018
26 January 2012 This Day Soldier, 7 Robbery Suspects Killed in Ebonyi
14 September 2013 This Day GOC: New Security Role Won’t Overwhelm Army 06 August 2018
21 May 2010 Vanguard GOC 82 Div Tasks Soldiers On Firing Skills
04 June 2011 Vanguard How JTF Exhumed the Body of John Togo
15 June 2012 Vanguard Coas Promises to Transform Army
08 October 2014 Vanguard Condemned 12 Soldiers - When Plea for Mercy Challenges Military Law
30 July 2015 Vanguard 95 generals moved in fresh Army shake-up
01 August 2017 Vanguard Army begins fitness competition in C-River
10 October 2008 Vanguard 28 Ecomog Soldiers Acted Badly, Witnesses Tell Court 06 August 2018
21 January 2009 Vanguard Army Convicts Five Officers For Stealing Soldiers' Allowances 06 August 2018
03 June 2011 Daily Champion Alleged Violation of Human Rights by FG Adjourned 06 August 2018
June 1991 Federal Research Division, Library of Congress Nigeria: A Country Study
15 January 2016 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Anti-Graft War: EFCC Seeks Army Support
18 November 2015 The Guardian (Nigeria) MASSOB counters Buhari, sure of UN referendum on Biafra
01 February 2016 Channels Television Army Denies Planned Relocation Of NASME To Borno
11 September 2017 Daily Trust Army deny attack on IPOB leader Kanu’s home
23 August 2015 Daily Trust Army redeploys GOCs, 329 officers
27 January 2021 Premium Times PROFILE: Meet the new Service Chiefs 16 November 2021
28 January 2021 Premium Times Attahiru assumes office as new army chief as Buratai bows out 16 November 2021
06 January 2014 Premium Times Oil theft in Cross River, Akwa Ibom has reduced – Army commande
26 December 2016 Premium Times Nigerian Army ends Operation Python Dance in South-East – Official
04 September 2016 This Day Military in Show of Force, Deploys More Air Force Personnel in N/Delta
18 November 2016 This Day Army Arrests 37 Boko Haram Suspects in Lagos, Ogun
11 September 2017 This Day Army Reconciles Warring Communities in Cross River, Ebonyi States
16 October 2017 This Day Army Wraps up Military Exercise in South-east
19 May 2011 Vanguard Soldiers seek more funding for peace missions
01 May 2016 Vanguard Benue, Enugu Killings: Islamic group reacts, says blaming Fulani herdsmen “absurd”
28 October 2016 Vanguard GOC 82 Div
30 January 2017 Vanguard Be neutral in crisis areas, GOC warns soldiers
25 May 2017 Vanguard Stop rampaging herdsmen now, Senate tasks IG
01 August 2017 Vanguard Army begins fitness competition in C-River 31 July 2018
13 September 2017 Vanguard Ops Python Dance 2: GOC 82 Div tours IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s home town