•Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu, has appointed General Officers Commanding (GOCs) for the newly established Army divisions. The appointments followed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s approval of the new formations to strengthen the Nigerian Army’s operational capac...
The Nigerian Army has carried out a major shake-up of its senior leadership, redeploying General Officers Commanding (GOCs), brigade commanders and other senior officers. The redeployment, approved by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, affects key operational, command, training and staff appointments, including th...
•Nigerian soldiers The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, has approved the posting and appointments of some senior officers to key command, instructional, and staff positions across various formations and units of the Nigerian Army. This was contained in a statement made available to defence correspondents in Abuja...
•Troops The General Officers Commanding (GOCs) of 6 and 82 divisions of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Jamal Abdussalam and Maj.-Gen. Hassan Dada, have ordered troops to destroy all illegal oil bunkering sites within their areas of responsibilities in the Niger Delta and the southeast. The GOCs were said to have given the order when they [&helli...
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