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Insecurity: Perm Sec tasks security agencies on intelligence sharing

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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaibu Belgore, has urged the military and other security agencies to develop a robust system of timely sharing of information in combating the prevailing security challenges.

Belgore made the call at the opening of the Operations Security and Force Protection Course 1/2022 of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) on Monday in Abuja.

He said the course was timely considering the level of insecurity in the country where the military and other security services had been involved in multidimensional interventions on multiple frontiers.

According to him, the security agencies are currently confronting security challenges that are both asymmetric warfare in nature and complexity in virtually all the states of the Federation and Federal Capital Territory.

He said the initiative should focus to develop a more robust system of operational security and enforcement action for mission successes.

Belgore said the effort should be geared towards preventing operational information from leaking into the hands of adversaries.

The permanent secretary said the efforts should also secure the lives of field operators particularly in light of the complex, dynamic and asymmetrical nature of warfare engaged by the military.

He said the war against terrorism required a corresponding change in the tactics to keep the operatives ahead of the enemies always to ensure the success of the mission.

“Also noteworthy to the success of any military operation is having minimal casualties and it is against the backdrop of the above that this course is conceived.

“I salute the initiative of the conveners of this course for their vision and foresight to drive the process of reinventing and reinvigorating the spirit of the nation’s military and security agencies.

“To all the participants here, take maximum advantage of what it offers and to build their capacities and competencies for the ever evolving dynamics of warfare space.

“The course is aimed towards bringing in different sectors together, especially in the intelligence and defense sector, to be able to work together in a collaborative way in terms of intelligence sharing and joint operations,” he said.

The Director-General, NARC, retired Maj.-Gen. Garba Wahab, said the course was organised for top military officers and other agencies of government who were at the forefront of managing security crisis.

Wahab said the course was aimed at finding a comprehensive approach to deliveries of intelligence, deliberate release of information or misinformation, because it depends on which side of the divide.

He said the nation’s security operatives must develop their ability to propagate intelligence as the major driver of their operations, adding that no operational success could be achieved without intelligence.

He said that trust and confidence had made sharing of intelligence difficult among security agencies, as it was important for the military and other security agencies to earn each other’s trust and confidence.

“So when people understand the weaknesses and strengths of everybody, it becomes easy even when you are reluctant you still warn the person before giving out information.

“The need to share, the need to know is important and so it borders on capacity and capability of the officers involved,” he said.

 

 

(NAN)

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Senate Confirms Appointment Of Oluyede As COAS

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The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede for appointment as Chief of Army Staff.

The confirmation today followed the consideration of reports by the Chairman of the sense committee on Army, Sen. Yar’ adua, Abdulaziz Musa (Katsina Central).

The committee’s recommendations were unanimously adopted by the upper chamber.

Lieutenant General Oluyede was appointed to act as the Chief of Army Staff following the illness and subsequent death of Lt. Gen. Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja.

 

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Tinubu Appoints New DG for NIA, DSS

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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Directors-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS).

Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed is the new Director-General of the NIA.

Mr. Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi is the new Director-General of the DSS.

This is contained in a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President, Media & Publicity

The statement reads : “Ambassador Mohammed has had an illustrious career in the foreign service since joining the NIA in 1995.

He had served in various roles, culminating in his promotion to the rank of Director and his subsequent appointment as the head of the Nigerian mission to Libya”

“The 1990 graduate of Bayero University, Kano, had served in North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, and at the State House, Abuja”

“The new DSS Director-General, Mr.

Adeola Ajayi, rose through the ranks to attain his current post of Assistant Director-General of the Service. He had, at various times, served as State Director in Bauchi, Enugu, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Kogi”

“The new appointments follow the resignation of the previous NIA and DSS chiefs”

“President Tinubu expects that the new security chiefs will work assiduously to reposition the two intelligence agencies for better results and charges them to bring their experience to bear in tackling the security challenges bedeviling the country through enhanced collaboration with sister agencies and in surgical alignment with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).

The President thanks the outgoing Directors-General of the two pivotal intelligence agencies for their services to the nation while wishing them success in their future endeavours”

 

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Army Has No Desire To Truncate Nigeria’s Democracy — COAS

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The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday, restated the commitment of the Nigerian Army to defend the nation’s choice of government, democracy.

Addressing participants at a seminar on career planning and management organised by the Army headquarters, the COAS said the Army has no plans to truncate democracy in the country.

He charged officers of the Nigerian Army to remain above board in the discharge of their professional duties.

“Permit me to seize this opportunity to reiterate that the Armed Forces of Nigeria, particularly the Nigerian Army has come to terms with the country’s choice of democracy as the preferred system of governance,” he said during his address to officers.

“We are therefore agents of democracy and have no desire to truncate it. The Nigerian Army will continue to defend our constitution and not suspend it for whatever reason.

“It is the duty of our elected leaders to lead while the military does its job as enshrined in our constitution. Nigerian Army personnel must therefore remain professional and be above board as they discharge their constitutional duties.”

The commitment by the COAS followed the series of putsches in West and Central Africa which have experienced at least seven military takeovers in the last four years.

Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and most recently, Niger Republic — all members of the Economic Community of Western African States ( ECOWAS) — have pulled out from the regional bloc in last four years. Outside of West Africa, Chad and Sudan also experienced military coups in 2021.

 

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