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The Nigerian Army has appointed Major General I.S. Ali as the new Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force North-East operation against the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists, known as Operation Hadin Kai. Ali, who was formerly with the 3 Division in Jos, Plateau State, was appointed on Saturday according to a release by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, and obtained by SaharaReporters. The counterinsurgency operation was formerly led Major-General Chris Musa.

The Nigerian army has carried out a major redeployment of some of its general officers commanding (GOCs). 

WASHINGTON — According to the recent DoD Annual Report on Suicide in the Military, total Army suicides increased in 2021 over calendar year 2020. However, the number has been decreasing

A human rights organisation, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, otherwise known as Intersociety, has knocked the Nigerian Army for failing to respond to the cogent human rights abuses in the South-East region, being committed by its personnel. The civic group asked the army to address the issues it (Intersociety) had raised rather than releasing a statement which failed to speak to the realities of uniformed personnel’s brutality in the militarised region. 

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, otherwise known as Intersociety, a civil society organisation, has reacted to a statement by the Nigerian Army denying claims that its personnel were collaborating with armed herdsmen and bandits to terrorise the South Eastern part of the country as well as Benue state.   The Army in a statement on Saturday signed by its spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu described such claims as spurious and derogatory, aimed at smearing the image of the service.