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146 Battalion [+] Print this page

Also known as: 146 Mechanised Battalion [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Army  Military [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Mobbar [+] 16 October 2016 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Calabar [+] 29 December 2004 [+] 20 November 2016 [+]
Gashigar [+] 16 October 2016 [+]

Memberships

Multi-unit organizations that this unit is part of
Name Country Other Names Classification First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield Sector 2 [+] Nigeria [+] JTF Sector 2 [+]
Sector Two [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		29 April 2013 [+] 26 August 2013 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope [+] Nigeria [+] JTF [+]
Joint Military Task Force [+]
Joint Military Task Force (JTF) [+]
Joint Military Task Force on the Niger Delta [+]
Joint Military Task known as Operation Restore Hope [+]
Joint Security Task Force [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Joint Task Force "Operation Restore Hope" [+]
Joint Task Force for the Niger Delta [+]
Joint Task Force on Niger Delta codenamed Operation Restore Hope [+]
Operation Restore Hope [+]
Operation Restore Hope in the Niger Delta [+]
Task Force [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		29 December 2004 [+]
Operation Gama Aiki [+] Nigeria [+] Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+] 		16 October 2016 [+]
African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur [+] Sudan [+] African Union/UN Hybrid operation in Darfur [+]
L’UNAMID/Darfour [+]
UNAMID [+] 		Peacekeeping [+] 8 October 2007 [+]

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Personnel

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Name Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Hassan Dada [+] Colonel [+] Commander [+] 2 October 2011 [+]
Lander Saraso [+] Lieutenant Colonel [+] Commander [+] 26 August 2013 [+]
Nidon Alfred [+] Lieutenant Colonel [+] Commander [+] 29 December 2004 [+]

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
15 September 2004 This Day Military Pensioners Protest Leader's Arrest
29 December 2004 This Day 2 Arrested Over Pipeline Vandalisation
10 February 2006 This Day Soldiers Attack Calabar PHCN Office
04 June 2006 This Day Amphibious Brigade Gets New Commander
21 July 2006 Vanguard Militants - Navy Calls for Unity Among Security Agencies
09 October 2007 This Day 680 Soldiers Head for Darfur
16 October 2007 Leadership Ejection - Cross River Government Drags FG to Court
18 January 2008 Leadership Cross River to Renovate Oldest Army Barracks
08 January 2009 Daily Independent Trills And Frills of 2008 Calabar Carnival
02 October 2009 Vanguard We'll Checkmate Militants' Activities, Says Army Boss
25 September 2010 Daily Champion Jonathan Sacks GOCs, Redeploys Others
12 July 2011 Daily Trust Bomb Blast - Army Urged to Be On Alert
13 July 2011 Daily Champion Army Warns Troops on Security Consciousness
23 January 2012 Daily Trust JTF Destroys 6,000 Illegal Refineries
12 March 2012 This Day Army Evict Occupants of Bakassi Resettlement
07 August 2012 This Day JTF Destroys 5,000 Illegal Bunkering Drums
27 August 2012 Daily Trust JTF Rescues 27 Kidnapped Oil Workers in Bakassi
20 November 2012 Daily Trust JTF Impounds Five Truck Loads of Diesel in Calabar
27 December 2012 Leadership JTF Destroys 10,000 Drums of Illegal Product, Arrest Police Asp
12 January 2013 This Day JTF - We've Cut Oil Theft By 84 Percent in Niger Delta
16 May 2013 Daily Trust 102 Nigerian Soldiers to Participate in Cameroon Independence Parade
26 June 2013 This Day JTF Sets Adulterated Diesel Tanker Ablaze
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
09 January 2014 Vanguard Army Destroys 36 Petrol Tankers, Six Boats in Cross River
13 May 2014 Daily Trust JTF Impounds N86
23 August 2014 This Day Boko Haram - Minimah Hints of Major Army Shake Up
24 December 2015 This Day Yuletide - Security Beefed Up Nationwide
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
03 January 2014 Leadership Detained Without Trial: The Story of Zubair Rufiu
07 January 2014 Leadership Counter-Terrorism, Fight Against Common Enemy - Army
27 January 2016 Leadership Oil Theft: Soldiers Arrest Suspect With 70 Drums Of Diesel, Speed Boat
13 June 2017 The Sun (Nigeria) Ayade, soldiers commend outgoing 13 Brigade Commander
30 May 2017 The Sun (Nigeria) New Theatre Commander Ops LAFIYA DOLE, Gen Attahiru resumes
14 January 2013 The Sun (Nigeria) Illegal oil bunkering: JTF arrests 2 police officers, 21 others
10 April 2013 The Sun (Nigeria) Bakassi: Armed forces to establish two forward operation bases
30 October 2017 The Nation (Nigeria) Army arrest fleeing Boko Haram members in Taraba 25 August 2018
16 September 2013 The Nation (Nigeria) JTF smashes foreign oil syndicate
15 May 2015 The Nation (Nigeria) Navy undergoes weapon handling, firing exercise
08 April 2016 Voice of Nigeria Nigerian Army ends inter-brigade competition
11 January 2014 Daily Trust Army - We're Winning War Against Oil Theft
08 January 2014 Radio Nigeria Brigadier General Laleye takes over as APR Director
01 March 2016 Nigerian Army SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS EXTOL ARMY FOR MAKING REGION INVESTORS’ SAFE HAVEN
19 July 2016 Champion Newspapers Brigade commander denies capture of Bakassi, Akpabuyo LGAs
26 August 2013 Daily Trust JTF Uncovers Oil Spill From Shell Pipeline
Nigerian Army Peacekeeping Centre OFFICE OF THE COMMANDANT
30 July 2015 Premium Times Major shake-up in Nigerian Army, 334 top officers redeployed
28 February 2017 Premium Times Buratai says Niger Delta now witnessing less oil theft
09 December 2015 The Tide Tambuwal Flays Poor Ranking Of Nigerian Varsities
19 May 2011 Vanguard Soldiers Seek More Funding for Peace Missions
03 October 2011 Vanguard Calabar Golf Club Woos Army Officers
15 June 2012 Vanguard Coas Promises to Transform Army
27 December 2012 Vanguard JTF Arrests Police ASP Over Alleged Illegal Bunkering
29 April 2013 Vanguard Crude Theft - JTF Nabs 76
23 June 2013 Vanguard JTF Nabs Eight Suspects Over SDPC Pipeline Inferno
18 July 2013 Vanguard 20-Yr-Old School Dropout Stabs School Prefect to Death
25 July 2013 Vanguard JTF destroys illegal refineries in Bayelsa
10 January 2014 Vanguard Cross River Is Free Off Militancy, Declares Commander
30 July 2015 Vanguard 95 generals moved in fresh Army shake-up
01 August 2017 Vanguard Army begins fitness competition in C-River
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
23 August 2015 Daily Trust Army redeploys GOCs, 329 officers
11 January 2014 Daily Trust We’re winning war against oil theft
02 July 2013 5 FM Abuja Nigeria NEWS ON THE ARMY SATURDAY 22ND JUNE, 2013
08 March 2011 P.M. News Defence HQ Launch Skills Acquisition In Barracks
19 November 2016 P.M. News Army Explains Role Of New Division In Niger Delta
23 November 2016 Premium Times EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Army officially declares 46 soldiers missing
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
08 September 2016 This Day Military Nabs Wanted Niger Delta Militants, Boko Haram Terrorist
18 November 2016 This Day Army Arrests 37 Boko Haram Suspects in Lagos, Ogun
01 May 2016 Vanguard Benue, Enugu Killings: Islamic group reacts, says blaming Fulani herdsmen “absurd”
29 May 2016 Vanguard Troops avert attacks on oil pipelines in Bayelsa – Army
28 October 2016 Vanguard GOC 82 Div
29 June 2017 Vanguard Army buries 2 soldiers killed in battle with Boko Haram
19 July 2017 Vanguard Two Brigade Nigerian Army hosts competition
01 August 2017 Vanguard Army begins fitness competition in C-River 31 July 2018
30 October 2017 Vanguard Dep gov lauds Army over facelift at premier oil well site
05 March 2018 Vanguard Dickson receives Buratai, urges him to help make Bayelsa foremost tourist, economic hub 26 August 2018