Defence Hqtrs names Col Abubakar, Director of Information

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The Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters has named Colonel Rabe Abubakar, its new Director of Information, reports ITRealms.

Col. Abubakar who took over Monday from else while Director of Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, who is retiring after a 35 years of active service.

Addressing newsmen, immediately after assuming office, Col. Abubakar noted that the military is very much aware and conscious of the security challenges in the country and the need for collaboration to confront it.

“There is absolute need for synergy of efforts and collaboration among all stakeholders to restrategise in the area of information collection, management and determination in counter terrorism and insurgency,” he said.

He assured of accessible, available and responsive in engagement with media and other partners in promotion of military-media relationship. Just as he promised robust press relationship with all segments of media outlets to support the Nigeria Armed Forces operations.

Born 7 April 1965, Col. Abubakar is from Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State and holds Bachelor of Arts degree in History, he was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a Second Lieutenant in 1989. 

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Defence HQ website hacked, restored, fingers APC

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The Defence Headquarters has affirmed the hacking of its website, which has also been restored, while industry watchers are fingering sympathisers of the main opposition, the All Progressive Congress (APC), reports ITRealms.

Reports gathered by ITRealms Friday, indicated that the website, www.defenceinfo.mil.ng was hacked in the early hours of today, Friday, January, 2015.

Reacting, the Defence Headquarters’ noted though, it’s information blog site has been restored.

A press statement signed by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information, was quoted as “The site was defaced at the front end. However, the hackers could not infiltrate the database of the site.”

“Preliminary investigation shows that the attack was from the end of the site’s host. One Ima Sadiq who posed as the hacker has been knocked off and normal activities on the channel has resumed.

“Apparently, the blog site was targeted because of its role as a major channel for disseminating information on military and security activities in the nation’s counter-terrorism campaign," he said.

Just as industry watchers were awash with arguments with some insisting that the said Ima Sadiq may have hacked the defence headquarters website in sympathy to the APC who recently denied.

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