BREAKING NEWS, Security
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Chris Olukolade, major-general, has yielded his position defence information chief to Rabe Abubakar, a colonel
THE Defence Headquarters, Abuja on Monday, August 3, replaced Chris Olukolade, a major-general with Rabe Abubakar, a colonel as its new director of information.
Olukolade, who has attained the retirement age of 35 years in the military, is proceeding on retirement, but will remain in active service until September.
Addressing newsmen shortly after taking over, Abubakar said he was aware and conscious of the security challenges in the country as well as the need for collective efforts to confront it.
Abubakar promised to make himself readily accessible, available, responsive and proactive in dealing with the media and other partners in the course of promoting military/media relationship.
He promised to maintain excellent and robust relations with the media and rally every organisation to support Armed Forces operations and activities.
The new director information reiterated his intention to adopt positive measures to promote excellent civil/military relations, thereby gaining public understanding and goodwill for troops in the theatre of operations.
He promised to maintain the professional standard set by his predecessor, and even work hard to improve upon it by tapping from his wealth of experience and knowledge from time to time.
Abubakar was born on April 7, 1965. He hails from Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.
He has a bachelor degree in History before he was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a second lieutenant in 1989.
— Aug 4, 2015 @ 13:32 GMT
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