Operation Whirl Punch is a DHQ led operation that deals with the menace of banditry and terrorism in Kaduna and Niger States.
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The Director, Defence Information, Major General Jimmy Akpor, gave the warning in a statement on Wednesday.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, had on Tuesday during a parley with media executives and editors revealed the names of the terrorists who masterminded the Owo attack.
In the video and live broadcast, some of the ex-soldiers, most of whom were dismissed from Service for various acts of indiscipline and misdemeanours, gave excuses for the various infractions that led to their exit from service.
This was contained in a statement on Sunday by Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, the Director Defence Information
Irabor made the call when he received the Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Telecom Network Nigeria, Karl Toriola, who was on a familiarisation visit to the Defence Headquarters on Friday in Abuja.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this while giving an update of the military operations across the country at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja.
The Defence Headquarters has dismissed the alleged recruitment of de-redicalised Boko Haram ex-fighters into the Nigerians military.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on Wednesday, decorated five newly promoted brigadier generals, two Navy commodores and one commander serving in Defence Headquarters.
The incident took place on August 6, 2019 in Ibi, Taraba State.
A statement by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Defence Information, on Thursday in Abuja, said that such insinuation could only emanate from an uninformed position.
The Defence Headquarters said on Friday that a new salary structure had not been approved for the members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.
Brig.-Gen. John Agim, the Acting Director of Defence Information, described the alleged action in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday as a “malicious trend”.
Brig.-Gen. John Agim, the Acting Director Defence Informatio, stated this in a statement on Monday, saying that the success was recorded in a four-pronged clearance operation at the weekend.
The statement said these latest tactics of the terrorists is a grand design to cause fear and panic among the farmers as well as the local populace
Consequently, it is important to reiterate that since inception of the operation there has always been a hierarchy of command and control as indeed in all military operations. The Armed Forces Act (AFA), Cap A20, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN), 2004 in Section 7, clearly states the appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and his powers
“The military, being a component of the society, is equally worried and is doing everything possible to address the current security challenges. The search for abducted Chibok school girls and the rescue of other Nigerian in hostage has never relapse as could be attested to in recent times where hundreds of women and children were rescued by the military through its coordinated operations
“Indeed, he needs to be told that by virtue of their better training, exposure, education, assessment and environment, the military personnel of today are already far beyond his level in their appreciation of democracy and its indispensability for the stable and prosperous society which Nigerians cherish
The site, according to information by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, was hacked into in the early hours of Friday
The Defence Headquarters said in the statement on its blog: “At about 2200hours yesterday 13 November 2014, a ground attack helicopter on an armed patrol crashed around the Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State