A tool from Security Force Monitor

Sakin-Yaki Bello [+] Print this page

Also known as: SY Bello | Sakin Yakin-Bello | Sarikiyaki Bello | Sarki Bello | Sarki Y. Bello | Sarki-Yaki Bello | Sarkin Bello | Sarkin Yaki-Bello | Sarkin Yakin Bello | Sarkin-Yaki Bello | Seriki Yaki Bello | Y. Bello [+]

Country: Nigeria [+]

Last seen as

General Officer Commanding, Major General, Commander of 82 Division (Army/Military) on 3 September 2011 [+]

Postings

Unit Rank Role Official Title First Cited Date Last Cited Date
82 Division [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] General Officer Commanding [+] 24 September 2010 [+] 3 September 2011 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope Sector 3 [+] Brigadier General [+] Commander [+] 24 September 2009 [+]
Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 12 March 2009 [+] 16 July 2010 [+]
2 Amphibious Brigade [+] Brigadier General [+] Commander [+] 21 August 2007 [+] 17 September 2007 [+]

Chain of command

Command relationships from a person's posting to the highest-level unit (calculated at the end of the posting)
Swipe to zoom, click and drag to pan

Superiors

Commanders of units that were superior to any units commanded by this person
Name Rank Role Unit Start of overlap End of overlap Duration of overlap
Azubuike Onyeabo Ihejirika [+] Lieutenant General [+] Commander [+] Nigerian Army [+] 8 September 2010 [+] January 2014 [+] ~1211 days
Paul Dike [+] Air Marshal [+] Commander [+] Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria [+] 20 August 2008 [+] 8 September 2010 [+] 749 days
Adamu T. Ibrahim [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] 82 Division [+] 31 July 2007 [+] 17 October 2007 [+] 78 days
Charles Omoregie [+] Major General [+] Commander [+] Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope [+] 24 September 2010 [+] Unknown Unknown

Subordinates

Commanders of units that were subordinate to any units commanded by this person
Name Rank Role Unit Start of overlap End of overlap Duration of overlap
Tukur Yusufu Buratai [+] Brigadier General [+] Commander [+] 2 Amphibious Brigade [+] 2 July 2011 [+] 18 December 2012 [+] 535 days
Shehu Yusuf [+] Brigadier General [+] Commander [+] 13 Amphibious Brigade [+] 19 May 2011 [+] 19 November 2012 [+] 550 days
Sylvester Audu [+] Brigadier General [+] Commander [+] 14 Brigade [+] 30 July 2011 [+] 28 February 2012 [+] 213 days
Victor Okwudili Ezugwu [+] Colonel [+] Commander [+] Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope Sector 2 [+] 30 March 2009 [+] 22 December 2010 [+] 632 days
Jamil Sarham [+] Colonel [+] Commander [+] Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope Sector 1 [+] 9 September 2009 [+] 28 September 2010 [+] 384 days
Christopher Musa [+] Lieutenant Colonel [+] Commander [+] Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope Sector 2 [+] 20 July 2007 [+] 17 June 2010 [+] 1063 days
Ahmed Mohammed [+] Colonel [+] Commander [+] Joint Task Force Operation Restore Hope Sector 1 [+] 30 March 2009 [+] 6 August 2009 [+] 129 days

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
20 July 2007 Daily Champion Sylva Assures On Peace
01 August 2007 Daily Trust Why We Retired Army Generals - Yar'Adua
27 August 2007 This Day Port Harcourt - Army Replaces Joint Task Force Commander
10 September 2007 Vanguard JTF Uncovers Militants Hide-Out in Rivers
17 September 2007 Vanguard JTF Overpowers Cultists, Gunmen in Ozuoba
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
23 December 2007 Vanguard Militants Ceasefire for Xmas
10 January 2008 This Day Militants - Military Begins Full-Scale Onslaught
09 January 2008 Vanguard Defence Chief Declares 'Red Alert' in N-Delta
24 September 2008 This Day We've Located All Miltant Campts in Rivers - JTF
14 January 2009 This Day Mutiny - 'Court Action Negates Rule of Law'
12 March 2009 Vanguard FG Merges Military Forces in N-Delta
30 March 2009 Vanguard JTF to Track Down Retired Generals Involved in Oil Bunkering - Major-General Bello
31 March 2009 Daily Champion Drop Your Guns Now, JTF Tells Militants
23 May 2009 Daily Trust 12 Missing Soldiers - Tension Mounts as JTF, Militants Square Off
06 June 2009 Vanguard Where is the Kings of Gbaramatu Kingdom?
06 August 2009 This Day Amnesty Takes Off
09 September 2009 Vanguard JTF Raids Illegal Oil Bunkers' Hideouts in Delta
02 October 2009 Vanguard We'll Checkmate Militants' Activities, Says Army Boss
08 November 2009 Daily Champion JTF Arrests 50 Bunkerers
15 December 2009 Vanguard Suspected Crude Oil Thieves Threaten Reprisal on JTF
17 June 2010 Leadership Renewed War Against Oil Thieves in Delta
16 July 2010 Vanguard JTF Arrests Eight Suspected Illegal Bunkerers, Nine Barges
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
28 September 2010 Daily Champion Joint Task Force Invasion - Minister's Family Flee Home
07 October 2010 This Day JTF Targets Pirates Along Waterways
16 November 2010 Leadership Exxonmobil Shuts Production of 45,000 Barrels Per Day
19 November 2010 Daily Champion Soldiers Capture Militants' Camp, Free 19 Hostages
19 November 2010 Leadership JTF Captures 14 Militant Camps in Niger Delta
07 February 2011 This Day Army Will Tackle Security Lapses
22 June 2011 This Day Internal Security - Army Modifies Training to Tackle Terrorism
12 July 2011 Daily Trust Bomb Blast - Army Urged to Be On Alert
18 July 2011 Daily Trust Day Soldiers Dumped Guns for Brooms
05 September 2011 Daily Trust Idoko Assumes Duty As GOC, 82 Division
05 December 2011 Daily Trust Soldiers Shut Fake 'NNPC' in Creeks
29 February 2012 Vanguard Ojukwu Grounds South-East
04 March 2012 Leadership We Want to See Our Son's Corpse'
09 May 2012 Leadership 25 Ghanaians, Five Locals Arrested Over Bunkering
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
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
21 November 2012 Daily Trust Crime - Army to Deploy Soldiers to Ogun
20 December 2012 Daily Trust Army Promotes 59 Generals
11 March 2013 Daily Trust 700 Soldiers Leave for Liberia
19 October 2013 This Day Nigeria, UK, U
30 November 2013 This Day 2015 - Army Prepares Agaist Violence
01 January 2014 Daily Trust Army Investigates Alleged Killing of Bus Driver By Soldier
06 September 2014 Leadership Insurgents Seize the Gulak Village
Nigerian Army LT GEN OA IHEJIRIKA
Nigerian Army Nigerian Army | 82 Division
06 July 1994 Armed Forces Ruling Council Armed Forces Act Part III S.8(b)
19 September 2013 Leadership FG Deploys Soldiers in Nasarawa
19 August 2008 Sahara Reporters BREAKING NEWS: YAr'adua Sacks Military Chiefs; Departs to Saudi Arabia for Medical Treatment
20 July 2014 Daily Trust Enugu Community, Army, Police On Warpath Over Death of Youth
09 September 2010 Nigeria Crime News Jonathan sacks Onovo, Dike, service chiefs
31 January 2013 Premium Times JTF laments shortage of accommodation for personnel in Rivers
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
17 July 2010 Vanguard Furore over vessel impounded by JTF
14 November 2010 Vanguard JTF Arrests 449 Suspected Kidnappers in Abia
22 December 2010 Vanguard JTF Destroy Nine Militant Camps in Bayelsa
25 December 2010 Vanguard We Can Exhume the Corpses and Count If
31 May 2011 Vanguard Bombings: Part of failed plots to derail Jonathan’s inauguration – Security Agencies
19 May 2011 Vanguard Soldiers Seek More Funding for Peace Missions
14 September 2011 Vanguard Army, Airforce Move Into Jos
03 October 2011 Vanguard Calabar Golf Club Woos Army Officers
02 July 2012 Vanguard 3 killed, one arrested as JTF, terrorists clash in Damaturu
26 September 2012 Vanguard Oil Theft - Stakeholders Toe Divergent Paths Over JTF's Altered Mandate
27 December 2012 Vanguard JTF Arrests Police ASP Over Alleged Illegal Bunkering
02 June 2015 Amnesty International Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands. War crimes committed by the Nigerian military
08 March 2011 P.M. News Defence HQ Launch Skills Acquisition In Barracks