COAS orders relentless operations against terrorists, reaffirms troop welfare

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has directed troops to prolong relentless, proactive, and intelligence-driven operations against terrorists and different transgression elements.

Colonel Appolonia Anele, Acting Director Army Public Relations, successful a connection said the COAS emphasised that operational effectiveness and unit payment remained captious to the Nigerian Army’s occurrence successful combating insecurity.

He gave the directive connected Friday, March 27, 2026, portion addressing troops of the Headquarters Nigerian Army Armour Corps and 33 Artillery Brigade astatine Shadawanka Barracks, Bauchi.

He charged troops to support a precocious level of operational readiness and intensify efforts to decisively prosecute and neutralise terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and different transgression elements wrong their areas of responsibility.

He noted that the continued activities of these groups person led to the displacement of guiltless citizens, reiterating the Army’s resoluteness to reconstruct lasting bid and stableness crossed affected communities.

Reinforcing his bid philosophy, Lieutenant General Shaibu assured unit that the Nigerian Army volition proceed to supply the indispensable operational enablers and logistics required...