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New AFP chief Sobejana orders men to exercise due diligence in sharing info to public Published February 5, 2021 8:30am Updated February 5, 2021 12:04pm Newly installed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana on Friday said he has ordered his men to observe "due diligence" in sharing information to the public amid accusations of red-tagging. Interviewed on Unang Balita, Sobejana said he gave the order to his senior staff commanders during a meeting on Thursday, the day he assumed the AFP chief of staff post. "Kahapon nagkaroon kami ng pagpupul...

BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 4 – The incoming Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana, visited the 402nd Infantry (Stingers) Brigade, Home of the Stingers Troopers on February 02, 2021 at Camp Romualdo Rubi, Barangay Bancasi, this city.       A Medal for Valor awardee and the current Commanding General of the Philippine Army, Lt. Gen. Sobejana’s visit to the 402nd Brigade is his only official visit to an Infantry Brigade as he prioritized major units of the Philippine Army and as a way of looking back to the people he worked with in the p...

Published February 4, 2021, 7:33 PM President Duterte has offered former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff General Gilbert Gapay to either be the administrator of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) or join the Department of National Defense (DND) as he ended his stint as the country’s top soldier. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte ALBERTO ALCAIN/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO Duterte made the statement as he led the Change of Command and Retirement Ceremony in Honor of Gapay at Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City Thursday evening. In his speech, Duterte congratulated Gapay...

By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News Published January 29, 2021 12:46pm The time is not yet ripe to conclude that the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 is effective in preventing terrorist attacks in the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Chief Minister Ahod "Al Haj Murad" Ebrahim said Friday. "The Anti-Terrorism [Law], it is still early to judge whether it will really address [terrorism in the region] but on our side, we have assured the President that we will be helping the national government in implementing this anti-terrorist law," Ebrahim said in a Foreign Correspondents Association of t...

President Rodrigo Duterte has named Army commanding general Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana as the next head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Malacañang said Wednesday. Sobejana is a recipient of the Medal of Valor award, the highest recognition in the military.