Army gets new spokesperson

The Nigerian army has appointed brigadier general Mohammed Yerima as the new spokesperson of the Nigerian army.

Brigadier Yerima was deputy director, reserve, defence headquarters before his new appointment.

He replaces brigadier general Sagir Musa who has served as the army’s spokesperson in the past two years.

Yerima’s deployment is among the first appointments approved by the new chief of army staff, major general Ibrahim Attahiru.

A graduate of political science from Ahmadu Bello University, Yerima enrolled into the Nigerian army in October 1989 and commissioned into the corps of army public relations and had served in various military formations.