Army Targets ‘Negative Propaganda’ On Social Media As Exercise Crocodile Smile Begins Tuesday

Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai

By Ovie Okpare

The Nigerian Army on Saturday says this year’s Exercise Crocodile Smile which will hold across the country between Tuesday October 20, 2020  to 31st of December 2020 will be devoted among other things to fighting cyber warfare including tracking peddlers of negative propaganda on social media.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, on Saturday.

The statement said the army will also during the exercise carry out positive identification component to check and identify fleeing Boko Haram suspects who are alleged from the North East to other parts of the country.

Musa said the exercise will be the first ever Cyberwarfare to be conducted in the history of the African Armed Forces.

“The Nigerian Army is set to start its annual Exercise Crocodile Smile which is traditionally conducted in the last quarter of the year. This year’s Exercise CROCODILE SMILE V1 is scheduled to commence from the 20th of October to the 31st of December 2020.

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“The Exercise is deliberately intended to be all encompassing to include cyber warfare exercises designed to identify, track and counter negative propaganda in the social media and across the cyberspace.

“This is the first ever Cyberwarfare exercise to be conducted in the history of the African Armed Forces. Accordingly, the exercise will also include positive identification component aimed at identifying Boko Haram terrorists fleeing from the North East and other parts of the country as a result of the ongoing operations in the various theatres of operations especially in the Northeast, North Central and North Western parts of Nigeria.

The statement, however, reassured Nigerians of the Nigerian Army commitment to the sustenance of peace and security of country.

It urged members of the public for support and understanding throughout the period of the exercise.


1 COMMENT

  1. Nigerian Army should go and face their war zone on Boko Haram and leave the civilian territory on what ever they want to do.

    They should go back to their barracks and wait for us to call them or report what we feel to be their duty and stop all this terror and threaten on us.
    Go and do your what ever you people want at dessert or Boko Haram captured territory and leave our peaceful civil zone be.

    Else it means you have another evil mission against this country or some part of tribes of this country.

    Don’t say you are not warn on this action you want to carry. This is democratic country and no longer military anymore!!! All the document regarding to this has been signed.

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