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1. Minister
Alh. Aliyu Gusau
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Federal Ministry of Defence

2. Table of Content
 Introduction
 Key Achievements
 Defence Headquarters
 Army Affairs
 Navy Affairs
 Airforce Affairs
 Highlights

3. Introduction
• The Ministry’s mandates are
implemented through its
Departments, the Defence
Headquarters and the
Services
• i.e. Army, Navy and the Air
Force including other
Institutional arrangements
relevant to the Defence
Industry. The following are
the major Achievements of
the Ministry
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4. Key Achievements
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5. • Construction of Participants Quarters, Nigerian Defence College
(NDC) Permanent Site, Piwoyi - Abuja.
• Construction and Furnishing of additional Hostel at NDA,
Kaduna
• Rehabilitation of Military Cemetery Maiduguri
• Rehabilitation of Military Cemetery Lokoja
• Provision of Water and Sewage Reticulation for both PQ I & PQ
II
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6. • Operation PULO SHIELD: This was set–up in Niger Delta with
the aim of protecting and safeguarding oil installations
• Operation SAFE HAVEN: Established in Jos and has successfully
reduced the communal clashes on the Plateau and environs
• Operation RESTORE ORDER: Established to cut down on the
activities and intensity of the Boko Haram Sects in Borno, Yobe
states and environs.
• Conducted Joint Military Exercise between Nigeria, Cameroun
and Benin Republic
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Defence Headquarters

7. • Operation MESA: This is a security measure being carried out in
conjunction with the Police and State Governments aimed at
reducing the activities of terrorists and criminals in the States of the
Federation.
• We have maintained and continued to sustain Nigeria’s leadership
position in African continent by playing a leading role in both
regional and world peace efforts
• Opened new Military Attaches in the Republics of Niger and Mali
to checkmate the spread and proliferation of small arms and light
weapons arising from the Libyan crisis.
• Sustained regional collaboration in maritime operations with
Cameroun, Chad and Benin Republic
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Defence Headquarters

8. • Renovation and Rehabilitation of Buildings and Infrastructures at
44 Reference Hospital Kaduna and 68 Reference Hospital, Yaba,
Lagos by NA Engineers
• Construction of Bayelsa Cantonment by NA Engineer
• Repaired 80 Armoured Fighting Vehicles and personnel carriers
(APCs) locally
• Construction of Counter Terrorist/Counter insurgency
(COT/COIN0 Buildings- Jaji by NA Engineers
• Construction of Tank & Arty Shds by NA Engineers
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Army Affairs

9. • NN’s Thunder, a Frigate offered by the US Government was
commissioned by the First lady on 23rd January, 2012 and
subsequently deployed for Naval Operations
• Participated in the OBANGAME EXPRESS 2012 edition held
between 18th February and 1stMarch, 2012. Some of the Countries
that participated include Nigeria, Ghana, Gabon, Cameroon among
others. The exercise, adjudged very successful, was declared closed
by the Honourable Minister of State for Defence (HMOSD).
• Purchase of 4No.17meter Manta MK III ASD Naval Patrol Craft for
the Nigerian Navy
• Acquired NNS Thunder (an ocean going war ship)
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Navy Affairs

10. • Acquired 3N0. Shaldag Fast Patrol Boats
• Procurement of 2No.92m Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for the
Nigerian Navy (NN).
• Procurement of 3No.24.8m Shaldag Fast Patrol Boats (FPBs) and
spare parts and training to the Nigerian Navy (NN).
• Procurement of 3No. 24m OCEA Fast Patrol Boats (FPBs)
• Commissioning of four warships in Lagos (NNS Okpabana, NNS
Centenary, NNS Sagbama and NNS Prosperity)
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Navy Affairs

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Navy Affairs
Commissioning of four warships in Lagos (NNS Okpabana, NNS
Centenary, NNS Sagbama and NNS Prosperity)

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Commissioning of four warships in Lagos (NNS Okpabana, NNS
Centenary, NNS Sagbama and NNS Prosperity)

13. • Reactivation of 5No G222
Aircraft and 1No additional
G222 Aircraft
• Repair and Retrieval of 5No C-
130H Aircraft engines,
Propellers and Refrigerators
• Purchase of Satcom Down Link
for ATR-42 Maritime Patrol
Aircraft
• Reactivation of 6Nos L-39ZA
Aircraft
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Airforce Affairs

14. • Reactivation of 6No. Alpha Jet
and 1 No Engine Test Bench
• Procurement of New 12 No
Agusta 109 Helicopters
• Purchased Mi-35 Helicopters
while Super Puma Helicopters
and Alpha-Jets and Engine Test
Bench have been reactivated
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Airforce Affairs/Army Affairs

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Highlights
NNS PROSPERITY A497
Nigerian Army personnel – braving the odds
somewhere in the rugged Mandara
Mountains.

16. • Declared a state of emergency
(SOE) in the most affected states
of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno in
2013 with the extension approved
by the National Assembly in 2014
based on a request by President
Jonathan
• Launched the Safe Schools
Initiative to ensure that young
people are not only safe in going
to school, but that schools are an
environment ripe for learning,
growth and development free of
fear.
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Highlights

17. • Created a new Infantry Division
of the Nigerian Army,
headquartered in Maiduguri, with
a mission to stamp out terrorism
in the North-East.
• Enhanced collaboration with
allies within the West African
region, and international
community to tackle terrorism in
Nigeria, leading to the
categorization of Boko Haram as
a terrorist organization by the
United Nations and others
members of the international
community.
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Highlights

18. Security summit
• Convened a security summit in
Paris, with French President
François Hollande, during
which the Presidents of Benin,
Cameroon, Niger and Chad
agreed to join with Nigeria and
wage war against Boko Haram.
• Launched the North-East
Development Programme, to
tackle the root causes of
terrorism.
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19. • Launched the North-East
Development Programme, to
tackle the root causes of
terrorism.
• Conducted mass recruitment to
bolster the ranks of security
agencies.
• Implemented Operation Safe
Haven, which has successfully
reduced the communal clashes
on the Plateau and environs.
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Highlights

20. • Enhanced Nigeria’s leadership position in regional and global peace
efforts, earning praise from the United Nations for Nigeria's role in
peacekeeping operations across Africa
• Sent troops to halt Islamist advances in Mali and to support the rule of
law in Ivory Coast.
• Established a committee on Proliferation of Small Arms and Light
Weapons (SALWs) to combat the flow of weaponry to Boko Haram
and armed criminal gangs.
• Created a Victims Support Fund in order to mobilise resources and
administer appropriate support to victims of insurgency and Boko
Haram terrorist activities.
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Highlights

21. • Checkmating the influx of illegal arms within its Area of
Responsibility through robust patrols
• Arrest of some members of the Boko Haram Group including those
who escaped to other countries
• Establishment of Forward Operating Bases from where Quick
Response Force is launched
• Effective conduct of Pre-Deployment Training at the Nigerian Army
Peacekeeping Centre Jaji for all units inducted into the mission area
and also for Military Observers deployed to various missions.
• Enhanced protection of oil and gas facilities through increased air and
ground patrols of pipeline networks to deter vandals from sabotage
activities.
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Highlights