Air power crucial to countering terrorism, banditry – Air Force chief

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal S.K. Aneke has declared that defeating Nigeria’s progressively blase information threats requires intelligence-led operations, associated unit integration, and the effectual employment of decisive aerial power.

Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force, successful a connection connected Friday, said the CAS made the assertion portion delivering a lecture titled “Air Power and National Security: The Nigerian Air Force successful Perspective” to participants of National Defence College Course 34 astatine the National Defence College (NDC), Abuja, connected Friday, July 3, 2026.

The assemblage comprised elder officers of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force, and Nigeria Police Force, alongside participants from assorted Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), arsenic good arsenic 20 planetary participants from allied countries.

The CAS underscored the indispensable relation of aerial powerfulness successful addressing today’s progressively analyzable information situation done integrated subject operations and a whole-of-government approach.

Air Marshal Aneke observed that Nigeria’s modern information scenery has evolved acold beyond accepted warfare, with terrorists, bandits, separatist gr...