Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Attahiru Ibrahim, has appointed a new Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yerima, who succeeds Brig.Gen. Sagir Musa.

Yerima, a former Director of Defence Information, was until his appointment, Deputy Director at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja.
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He is member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, African Public Relations Association and Fellow, West Africa Society for Administration and Communication.

The new army spokesman was a participant in the Senior Strategic Media Operation programme at Reach Cambridge and Kofi Annan Centre, Ghana.

He also attended Senior Leadership Course at Sheringham, United Kingdom and undertook a United States-Embassy funded media tour of Africom in Stuttgart, Germany.

Yerima obtained a B.A. Ed Degree in Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, before enrolling in the Nigerian Army in October 1989 and commissioned into the Corps of Army Public Relations.
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