Nigerian Army begins process to update 2017 defence doctrine

The Nigerian Army, 6 Division Headquarters, Port Harcourt Barracks, Rivers State, connected Tuesday, 14 July 2026, received a delegation from the Committee connected Review of the Joint Defence Doctrine 2017, JDD, which is moving to nutrient a revised doctrine that captures Nigeria’s shifting information scenery and the realities of modern-day subject operations. 

Major General Ademola Adedoja, who chairs the committee, led the squad successful a league with the Division’s commanders and elder officers, aimed astatine drafting retired nonrecreational recommendations to provender into the 2026 variation of the Joint Defence Doctrine.

During the engagement, Major General Adedoja gave inheritance of the committee, noting that it was primitively constituted successful 2017 to transportation retired periodic reviews of the papers that guides the Armed Forces of Nigeria’s operations.

A connection issued by Lieutenant Colonel Umar Adam, Acting Deputy Director of 6 Division Nigerian Army Public Relations, indicated that the workout is being carried retired connected the acquisition of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi O...