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The 7th Division (also known as JTF-RO) was established in August 2013 for the war against Boko Haram.The creation of the new division brought to six the number of divisions.
According to Lieutenant General Buratai, the 17 Brigade was established in order to address issues in the North-West Zone and in the Katsina State identified by the Nigerian Army: [1] cattle rustling, armed robbery and armed banditry. [4]
He was commissioned into the Nigerian Army on 4 July 1983. He fought during the wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone and DR Congo. He was a weapons and tactics instructor at Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji. [citation needed] He was posted to Maiduguri and promoted major general by Army Headquarters in the wake of the 2014 Chibok ambush.
In May 2021, the Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP) launched an invasion of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, Nigeria, which was serving as the main base of Boko Haram, a rival jihadist rebel group. Following heavy fighting, ISWAP overran the Boko Haram troops, cornering their leader Abubakar Shekau.
Ibrahim Attahiru CFR psc(+) GSS CMH ndc (K) FCMH NAM (10 August 1966 – 21 May 2021) was a Nigerian army lieutenant general who served as the Chief of Army Staff from 28 January 2021 to 21 May 2021 when he died in the 2021 NAF Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i crash near Kaduna International Airport.
The 6th Amphibious Division is a one of two combined infantry division unit of the Nigerian Army (NA),which specialized in amphibious warfare, combined arms, coastal defence, desert and jungle warfare, providing security at ports or shore stations, and reconnaissance.
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The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 16 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN). [30]