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Country: Nigeria [+]

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Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Nigeria [+] 6 July 1994 [+]

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Personnel

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Name Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Owoye Andrew Azazi [+] General [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 27 August 2007 [+] 19 August 2008 [+]
Azubuike Onyeabo Ihejirika [+] Major General [+] Director of Engineering [+] Director of Engineering [+] 9 January 2009 [+]
John Zaruwa [+] Major General [+] None 25 October 2014 [+]
Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin [+] General [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 13 July 2015 [+] 28 January 2021 [+]
Oluseyin Petinrin [+] Air Marshal [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 8 September 2010 [+] 3 October 2012 [+]
Paul Dike [+] Air Marshal [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 20 August 2008 [+] 7 September 2010 [+]
Chris Olukolade [+] Brigadier General [+] Director of Defence Information [+] Director of Defence Information [+] 27 September 2010 [+] 26 July 2013 [+]
Chris Olukolade [+] Major General [+] Director of Defence Information [+] Director of Defence Information [+] 27 December 2013 [+] 12 February 2015 [+]
Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim [+] Admiral [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 4 October 2012 [+] 15 January 2014 [+]
Alex Sabunduh Badeh [+] Air Chief Marshal [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 16 January 2014 [+] 12 July 2015 [+]
Ibrahim Attahiru [+] Major General [+] Director of Administration [+] 29 May 2017 [+]
Lucky E. Erabor [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 29 January 2021 [+]
Azugaku Tsota Umuru [+] Major General [+] Director of Administration [+] Director of Administration [+] 8 March 2011 [+]
Martin Luther Agwai [+] Lieutenant General [+] Commander [+] Chief of Defence Staff [+] 1 June 2006 [+] 1 June 2007 [+]

Sources

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Publication Date Publisher Publication Title Access Date Archive Link
01 July 2005 This Day Nigerian Soldiers Depart for Sudan
15 August 2006 Vanguard Bakassi Ruler Asks 'How Do We Carry Our Forefathers' Graves'
19 November 2006 Vanguard Militants to Army Chief - Your Men Worsened Hostilities in N-Delta
03 June 2007 Daily Trust Darfur - Returning Soldiers Grumble Over Unpaid Allowances
27 August 2007 Vanguard Country's Foreign Policy Under Yar'Adua
09 January 2008 Vanguard Defence Chief Declares 'Red Alert' in N-Delta
08 July 2008 This Day Soldiers' Protest - House Summons Defence Minister, Azazi
09 August 2008 This Day Security Beefed Up in Azazi's Country Home
21 August 2008 Vanguard Yar'Adua Drops Service Chiefs in Military Shake-Up
10 January 2009 Vanguard Shake-Up in Army
14 January 2009 This Day Mutiny - 'Court Action Negates Rule of Law'
12 March 2009 Vanguard FG Merges Military Forces in N-Delta
27 September 2010 Daily Trust Sacked GOCs Get New Posts
25 May 2011 Daily Champion Lagos - DPO, DCO Killed in Army, Police Clash
17 September 2011 Daily Trust Jos - Will Military Intervention Stop Bloodshed?
18 August 2012 Leadership Ihejirika Heads for Defence, as Jonathan Shops for New Coas
05 October 2012 This Day Jonathan Names New CDS, Service Chiefs
09 April 2013 This Day Amnesty Committee Mulls Conditions for Boko Haram
28 December 2013 This Day In Major Shake-Up, Army Redeploys Senior Officers
10 June 2014 Leadership Soldiers Seize Leadership, Daily Trust, the Nation Newspapers in Minna
05 August 2014 Daily Trust Amnesty - Nigerian Military Committing War Crimes
06 September 2014 Leadership Insurgents Seize the Gulak Village
31 October 2014 This Day Battle for Mubi Rages, Military Ramps Up Counter-Attack
12 February 2015 This Day Military Affirms Commitment to Nigeria's Democracy, Says It Is Apolitical
14 August 2015 Daily Independent Crush Boko Haram in Three Months, Buhari Orders Military Chiefs
30 August 2015 Daily Trust Defence Headquarters Upgrades Special Task Force in Plateau
09 June 2016 This Day Sambisa Forest Is Now Locked Down - Military
Nigerian Army Nigerian Army 1 Division.
06 December 2017 Daily Post Boko Haram: Rogers Nicholas replaces Attahiru as theatre commander
19 August 2013 Daily Trust Insurgency - Army Creates New Division in North East
18 December 2015 Defence Headquarters NEW THEATRE COMMANDERS FOR OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE APPOINTED
21 October 2015 Defence Headquarters Profile of the Chief of Defence Staff
06 May 2015 The Guardian (Nigeria) Army begins trial of General, four others over loss of Baga
06 July 1994 Armed Forces Ruling Council Armed Forces Act Part III S.8(1)
07 January 2014 Leadership Counter-Terrorism, Fight Against Common Enemy - Army
06 November 2014 Leadership Cement Firm Attack - Anxiety As Boko Haram Carts Away Dynamite
03 February 2015 Leadership Finally, Nigerian Troops Bombard Sambisa Forest
31 August 2016 Reuters Operation Lafiya Dole
19 August 2008 Sahara Reporters BREAKING NEWS: YAr'adua Sacks Military Chiefs; Departs to Saudi Arabia for Medical Treatment
26 July 2013 Sahara Reporters Army "Corners" Boko Haram Leader, Shekau, In Borno Hills-Punch Newspaper
30 May 2017 The Sun (Nigeria) New Theatre Commander Ops LAFIYA DOLE, Gen Attahiru resumes
28 January 2014 The Nation (Nigeria) Boko Haram kills 74 in Borno, Adamawa attacks
12 June 2006 The Source Operation Flush Out!
Training and Doctrine Command BRIEF BIOGRAPHY of MAJ GEN AG Olonisakin
08 January 2014 Radio Nigeria Brigadier General Laleye takes over as APR Director
Nigerian Air Force NAF Headquarters 21 July 2015
23 June 2016 Nigerian Army OPERATION PULO SHIELD IN NIGER DELTA SCRAPPED
01 March 2016 Nigerian Army SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS EXTOL ARMY FOR MAKING REGION INVESTORS’ SAFE HAVEN
19 January 2016 Channels Television Defence Minister Arrives Warri To Inspect Pipeline Explosion Site
04 September 2013 Daily Trust Army retires senior officer, redeploys others
Nigerian Ministry of Defence About MOD.
09 September 2010 Nigeria Crime News Jonathan sacks Onovo, Dike, service chiefs
17 May 2013 Leadership Emergency Rule - Economic Activities Grounded in Three States
19 February 2016 The Guardian (Nigeria) U.S. military trains Nigerian soldiers on counter-terrorism.
30 July 2015 Premium Times How fifth columnists in Nigerian military leaked operational plans to Boko Haram – ex-Defence Chief
17 March 2016 Premium Times Army Names New Commander for Anti-Boko Haram Operation
02 May 2016 Premium Times Army Begins Large-Scale Operation in Sambisa Forests - Commander
30 July 2015 Premium Times Major shake-up in Nigerian Army, 334 top officers redeployed
09 December 2015 The Tide Tambuwal Flays Poor Ranking Of Nigerian Varsities
06 February 2014 This Day Jonathan Charges Service Chiefs to Crush Boko Haram Insurgents
13 March 2012 This Day Jos Returns to Religious Fault Line - More Dead
16 November 2007 This Day Bakassi Killings: Nigerian Soldiers Not Involved, Azazi Insists
22 June 2011 Vanguard Bomb blast: NSA summons IGP…as police postpone meeting
14 September 2011 Vanguard Army, Airforce Move Into Jos
23 September 2011 Vanguard Security Beef-up in Lagos, Jos, Delta
11 January 2012 Vanguard FG approves new operational status for JTF
16 May 2013 Vanguard Soldiers storm Borno,Yobe, Adamawa
22 March 2014 Vanguard 'Chained to the Floor for Four Years!'
25 October 2014 Vanguard Terrorism - Army Sends GOC to Office
30 July 2015 Vanguard 95 generals moved in fresh Army shake-up
30 March 2016 Vanguard Army captures Alagarno, Boko Haram `spiritual power base’
2018 Routledge Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria: The Military and Operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017 16 February 2018
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
02 June 2015 Amnesty International Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands. War crimes committed by the Nigerian military
23 August 2015 Daily Trust Army redeploys GOCs, 329 officers
08 March 2011 P.M. News Defence HQ Launch Skills Acquisition In Barracks
23 November 2016 Premium Times EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Army officially declares 46 soldiers missing
16 February 2021 Premium Times Ex-Nigerian defence chief, Olonisakin pulls out of army 16 November 2021
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
29 January 2021 TheCable PHOTOS: Olonisakin, chief of air staff hand over to their successors 16 November 2021
18 November 2016 This Day Army Arrests 37 Boko Haram Suspects in Lagos, Ogun
06 October 2020 This Day Preparing Military Personnel for Post-service Life 22 October 2020
01 May 2016 Vanguard Benue, Enugu Killings: Islamic group reacts, says blaming Fulani herdsmen “absurd”
28 October 2016 Vanguard GOC 82 Div
30 January 2021 Vanguard What you didn’t know about new Service Chiefs 23 November 2021