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Also known as: 93 Army Battalion| 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Army  Military [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Ibi [+] 25 March 2016 [+] 28 October 2017 [+]
Borno [+] 25 September 2011 [+] 30 June 2012 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Takum [+] 27 October 2008 [+] 25 May 2017 [+]
Delta [+] 1 May 2006 [+]
Wado city [+] 7 March 2006 [+] 26 October 2008 [+]

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 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 [+] 		7 March 2006 [+] 26 October 2008 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order I [+] Nigeria [+] JTF [+]
JTF ORO [+]
JTF Operation Restore Order [+]
JTF in Borno State [+]
JTF in Maiduguri, Borno State [+]
JTORO [+]
Joint Special Task Force in Maiduguri [+]
Joint TASK Force MAIDUGURI [+]
Joint Task Force (JTF) tagged "Operation Restore Peace" [+]
Joint Task Force in Borno [+]
Joint Task Force in Borno State [+]
Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, Borno State [+]
Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Order [+]
ORO I [+]
operation restore peace [+] 		Air Force [+]
Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Navy [+]
Police [+]
State Security Service (Internal Security) [+] 		25 September 2011 [+] 30 June 2012 [+]

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Personnel

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Name Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
N.J Edet [+] Lieutenant Colonel [+] Commander [+] 20 November 2012 [+] 26 April 2014 [+]
Chima Egemole [+] Lieutenant Colonel [+] Commander [+] 25 March 2016 [+] 28 March 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
11 April 2017 Security Force Monitor This unit is a placeholder to represent the hierarchical structure of this branch of the security service, based on the Security Force Monitor's research, as the Monitor does not currently have a source for a parent relationship to a specific, named unit
02 October 2000 Vanguard Obasanjo Okays New Army Division For Benin
05 August 2002 The News After the Lagos Bomb Explosion
08 April 2004 Vanguard Tinubu/Fayose Face-Off: George Misled Obasanjo, Says Lagos Govt
15 September 2004 This Day Military Pensioners Protest Leader's Arrest
16 December 2004 This Day Sierra-Leone: 'Troops 'Ll Not Be Replaced'
10 February 2006 This Day Soldiers Attack Calabar PHCN Office
07 March 2006 This Day FG Redeploys Zamani, Task Force Commander
01 May 2006 This Day Police: Bomb Timed to Create Several Explosions
04 June 2006 This Day Amphibious Brigade Gets New Commander
21 July 2006 Vanguard Militants - Navy Calls for Unity Among Security Agencies
30 January 2007 Daily Champion Ihejirika Lauds Joint Police/Military Operations in Lagos
16 October 2007 Leadership Ejection - Cross River Government Drags FG to Court
18 January 2008 Leadership Cross River to Renovate Oldest Army Barracks
08 April 2008 Vanguard As JTF Arrests Uvwie Chief
11 September 2008 Vanguard Oyinlola, Agagu, Oni Solicit for Peace, Security in S-West
15 October 2008 Daily Independent Dealing With Massob Threat in Igbo Agenda
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
23 January 2012 Daily Trust JTF Destroys 6,000 Illegal Refineries
12 March 2012 This Day Army Evict Occupants of Bakassi Resettlement
16 March 2012 Daily Trust Failing State, Fading Peacekeepers
05 April 2012 Daily Trust Two Soldiers Killed in Taraba
05 April 2012 Leadership Taraba Attack - Six Villages Burnt, Two Soldiers Killed
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
21 March 2014 Daily Trust Nigerian Troops Leave for Peace Keeping in Liberia
27 April 2014 Daily Trust How Soldiers Misled Us While On Mission to Free Abducted Colleague - Priest
23 August 2014 This Day Boko Haram - Minimah Hints of Major Army Shake Up
11 September 2014 The Guardian (Nigeria) Soldier's Alleged Rape of Poly Student - Lawyer Refutes Oyo State Probe Claims
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
28 March 2016 The Guardian (Nigeria) ´Soldiers arrest six, recover weapons over Taraba communal clash
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
31 October 2016 The Punch Militants reject Buhari’s meeting, attack pipeline
20 May 2015 Sahara Reporters Nigerian Army: No Longer Business As Usual With Buhari In Charge By Abiodun Ladepo
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
27 August 2017 The Nation (Nigeria) Army begin combat proficiency competition in Benin Monday
04 May 2015 The Nation (Nigeria) 84 killed in Taraba communal crisis
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
01 March 2016 Nigerian Army SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS EXTOL ARMY FOR MAKING REGION INVESTORS’ SAFE HAVEN
27 March 2016 Nigerian Army PRESS STATEMENT BY LT COL CO EGEMOLE ON CRISIS IN IBI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA ON FRIDAY 25TH MARCH 2016
26 October 2006 Council on Foreign Relations Modern Military Force Structures
19 July 2016 Champion Newspapers Brigade commander denies capture of Bakassi, Akpabuyo LGAs
26 August 2016 Federal Republic of Nigeria South-West
30 July 2015 Premium Times Major shake-up in Nigerian Army, 334 top officers redeployed
28 August 2014 The Punch Mutiny: Four Military Officers Quizzed
15 July 2012 The Punch Unending controversies over security
27 October 2008 The Nation (Nigeria) Shake-up in Niger Delta security outfits
09 December 2015 The Tide Tambuwal Flays Poor Ranking Of Nigerian Varsities
12 February 2014 This Day Ex-Taraba Speaker's Brother Wins PDP Primary for By-Election
17 April 2014 This Day Soldier, 34 Others Killed in Renewed Hausa, Jukun Clashes in Taraba
20 November 2012 This Day Taraba Violence - Death Toll Rises to 10
31 March 2011 Vanguard Polls: Soldiers Will Carry Arms, Says COAS
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
22 February 2013 Vanguard Two Killed As Rival Revenue Collectors Clash in Edo
18 July 2013 Vanguard 20-Yr-Old School Dropout Stabs School Prefect to Death
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
02 June 2015 Amnesty International Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands. War crimes committed by the Nigerian military
14 January 2015 Daily Trust Army Dismisses 227 Soldiers for 'Refusing to Fight Boko Haram'
23 August 2015 Daily Trust Army redeploys GOCs, 329 officers
26 July 2017 P.M. News Akeredolu Laments Rise In Kidnap Cases
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
16 March 2016 Vanguard Buhari’s will, Troops’ resilience behind successes against insurgency- Buratai
01 May 2016 Vanguard Benue, Enugu Killings: Islamic group reacts, says blaming Fulani herdsmen “absurd”
28 October 2016 Vanguard GOC 82 Div
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
20 April 2018 Vanguard Army trains troops for combat proficiency competition 31 July 2018