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Also known as: JTF| JTF Operation Pulo Shield| Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta| Joint Military Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield| Joint Task Force in Niger Delta code-named Operation Pulo Shield| Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta| Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta (Operation Pulo Shield)| OP Pulo Shield| Operation Polo Shield [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Classified as: Army  Joint Task Force  Military  Police [+]

Areas of operation


Area of Operation First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Abia [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Akwa Ibom [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Bayelsa [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Cross River [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Delta [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Edo [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Imo [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Ondo [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Rivers [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]

Sites


Site First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Yenagoa [+] 9 January 2012 [+] 4 November 2014 [+]

Member units

All units that comprise this unit.
Name Country Other Names Classification First Cited Date Last Cited Date
130 Battalion [+] Nigeria [+] Army [+]
Military [+] 		28 March 2013 [+] 4 November 2014 [+]

Parent units

All units that have held a command position over this unit.
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Subsidiaries

Name Other Names Classification First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield Sector 1 [+] Sector 1 [+]
Sector 1 Joint Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield [+]
Sector One [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		23 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield Sector 2 [+] JTF Sector 2 [+]
Sector Two [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		23 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield Sector 3 [+] Sector 3 Operation Pulo Shield [+] Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		23 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield Sector 4 [+] Sector 4 [+]
Sector Four [+] 		Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		23 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield Sector 5 [+] Sector Five [+] Army [+]
Joint Task Force [+]
Military [+]
Police [+] 		23 January 2012 [+] 22 June 2016 [+]

Personnel

Table showing personnel linked to this unit in command, administrative and other roles
Name Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
Alani Gafar Okunola [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 10 September 2015 [+] 18 January 2016 [+]
Faruk Yahaya [+] None Chief of Staff [+]
Okwudili F. Azinta [+] Brigadier General [+] None 19 December 2012 [+]
Okwudili F. Azinta [+] Colonel [+] None 18 December 2012 [+]
Johnson Ochoga [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 26 August 2012 [+] 11 January 2013 [+]
Abimbola Ayuba [+] Commodore [+] Deputy Commander [+] 3 September 2012 [+] 26 September 2012 [+]
Bata Debiro [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 11 January 2013 [+] 9 January 2014 [+]
Iliyasu Isah Abbah [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 10 January 2014 [+]
Emmanuel Atewe [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 13 February 2014 [+] 28 July 2015 [+]

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
02 January 2005 Vanguard Climbing the 'Harzardous Aso-Rock'
01 July 2005 This Day Nigerian Soldiers Depart for Sudan
19 November 2006 Vanguard Militants to Army Chief - Your Men Worsened Hostilities in N-Delta
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
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?
23 January 2012 Daily Trust JTF Destroys 6,000 Illegal Refineries
27 August 2012 Daily Trust JTF Rescues 27 Kidnapped Oil Workers in Bakassi
20 December 2012 Daily Trust Army Promotes 59 Generals
12 January 2013 This Day JTF - We've Cut Oil Theft By 84 Percent in Niger Delta
31 March 2013 This Day JPlateau - Another Bloody Attack Averted by STF
09 April 2013 This Day Amnesty Committee Mulls Conditions for Boko Haram
08 July 2013 Daily Trust Oil Theft - JTF Impounds 28 Vessels, Barges in Rivers
28 December 2013 This Day In Major Shake-Up, Army Redeploys Senior Officers
11 January 2014 Daily Trust New JTF Commander Takes Over in Bayelsa
18 August 2014 This Day Four Dredging Workers Kidnapped in Bayelsa
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.
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)
27 January 2016 Leadership Oil Theft: Soldiers Arrest Suspect With 70 Drums Of Diesel, Speed Boat
31 January 2016 Leadership Boko Haram Scare: Suspect Arrested In Delta
10 September 2015 News Agency of Nigeria 3 die, others injured in clash between JTF, militants in Delta
11 March 2016 News Agency of Nigeria 35 suspects arrested in arms mop-up operation in Delta
31 August 2016 Reuters Operation Lafiya Dole
30 May 2017 The Sun (Nigeria) New Theatre Commander Ops LAFIYA DOLE, Gen Attahiru resumes
26 July 2013 The Sun (Nigeria) Niger Delta creeks: JTF arrests 25, destroys 75 illegal oil refineries
04 November 2014 The Nation (Nigeria) JTF vows to fish out Niger Delta criminals
Training and Doctrine Command BRIEF BIOGRAPHY of MAJ GEN AG Olonisakin
Nigerian Air Force NAF Headquarters 21 July 2015
23 June 2016 Nigerian Army OPERATION PULO SHIELD IN NIGER DELTA SCRAPPED
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
12 December 2013 Daily Trust Promotion - Army Gets 27 New Major Generals, 75 Brigadiers
13 June 2014 Daily Trust Army Trains 22 Soldiers to Counter Oil Theft
Nigerian Ministry of Defence About MOD.
04 February 2016 The Guardian (Nigeria) Security agencies deny Boko Haram role in Edo explosion
19 February 2016 The Guardian (Nigeria) U.S. military trains Nigerian soldiers on counter-terrorism.
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
13 February 2014 This Day Army, Navy Redeploy Senior Officers
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
03 September 2012 Vanguard JTF Trains Personnel On Ethics
26 September 2012 Vanguard Oil Theft - Stakeholders Toe Divergent Paths Over JTF's Altered Mandate
16 May 2013 Vanguard Soldiers storm Borno,Yobe, Adamawa
08 November 2013 Vanguard JTF Captures Three Sea Pirates, Recovers Arms, Ammunition
29 March 2014 Vanguard JTF arrests 2 Britons, 12 Nigerians for illegal bunkering
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
03 July 2021 Nigerian Army NIGERIAN ARMY APPOINTS PRINCIPAL STAFF OFFICERS, FIELD COMMANDERS, OTHERS 02 December 2021
Nigerian Army PROFILE OF THE 22ND CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF 02 December 2021
02 June 2015 Amnesty International Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands. War crimes committed by the Nigerian military
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
29 January 2021 TheCable PHOTOS: Olonisakin, chief of air staff hand over to their successors 16 November 2021
31 May 2016 This Day Soldiers Take over Tompolo’s Residence, Father Escapes Arrest
06 October 2020 This Day Preparing Military Personnel for Post-service Life 22 October 2020
30 January 2021 Vanguard What you didn’t know about new Service Chiefs 23 November 2021