- sets up intelligence fusion centre in Maiduguri
Following the fresh attack on some communities in Shinkafi and Karadun local government area, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a military crackdown on bandits operating in the rural area of Zamfara Areas.
The President, in a Statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the president, Garba Sheu, Buhari approved the request by the Minister of Defence Brig-Gen. Mansur Dani Ali (rtd) for the stationing of a full battalion of Special Forces in Zamfara State, and the operationalization of the newly-established 8 Division of the Nigerian Army in Sokoto in the new Order of Battle (OBAT)
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The President has also approved the movement of the 1 Brigade of the Nigerian Army from Sokoto to Gusau upon the take-off of the 8 Division.
Buhari also set up an intelligence fusion centre in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to tackle the activities of the terrorist group, Boko Haram in the North-east, through the use of mostly female underage girls as suicide bombers.
According to the President, this phase of the war will be intelligence-driven and the new centre is expected to intensify the harvesting and sharing of intelligence so as to bring to an early closure, the desperate last-minute activities of the terrorists.
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