{"id":77796,"date":"2025-10-30T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77796"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:45:22","slug":"new-defence-chief-pledges-intelligence-driven-operations-improved-troop-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/30\/new-defence-chief-pledges-intelligence-driven-operations-improved-troop-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"New Defence Chief Pledges Intelligence-Driven Operations, Improved Troop Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lt-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has vowed to strengthen intelligence-led operations and prioritise the welfare of military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the handover ceremony in Abuja on Thursday, Oluyede, who succeeded Gen. Christopher Musa, said Nigeria\u2019s security challenges, terrorism, banditry, cybercrime, and maritime threats require a coordinated, intelligence-based approach.<\/p>\n<p>He pledged to deepen inter-agency collaboration, leverage technology for early threat detection, and enhance capacity-building across the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe welfare of our officers and men remains central to operational effectiveness. Their sacrifices will be recognised and rewarded,\u201d Oluyede assured.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing CDS Musa praised Oluyede\u2019s professionalism and urged full cooperation with the new leadership to strengthen national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lt-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has vowed to strengthen intelligence-led operations and prioritise the welfare of military personnel. Speaking during the handover ceremony in Abuja on Thursday, Oluyede, who succeeded Gen. Christopher Musa, said Nigeria\u2019s security challenges, terrorism, banditry, cybercrime, and maritime threats require a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77798,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796\/revisions\/77798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}