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Nigeria extends space-based intelligence support to military operations
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, has ordered the Defence Space Administration to extend space-based intelligence and surveillance support to military operations in the North-west and North-central.
The directive was given in Abuja during the agency’s 12th anniversary.
The support already assists Operation Hadin Kai in the North-east, and is expected to help joint forces in Operation Fansan Yamma in the North-west and Operation Savannah Shield in the North-central.
Space-based capabilities can provide intelligence, surveillance and communications that help troops understand conditions and coordinate operations.
The Defence Space Administration says it has developed these capabilities since its establishment in 2014, including Nigeria’s military satellite DELSAT-1, launched in 2022.
Oluyede also urged the agency to develop local expertise and technology, and a former defence chief said strengthening space-based intelligence will require sustained investment.
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff Olufemi Oluyede has ordered the Defence Space Administration to extend space-based intelligence support to military operations in the North-west and North-central.
The support is already being used by Operation Hadin Kai in the North-east.
The extension is expected to support Operation Fansan Yamma in the North-west and Operation Savannah Shield in the North-central.
The directive was given on Friday at the DSA’s 12th anniversary event in Abuja.
A former defence chief welcomed the plan but said it would require sustained investment.
- Who
- Chief of Defence Staff Olufemi Oluyede directed the Defence Space Administration to extend its support.
- What
- The DSA is to extend space-based intelligence and surveillance support to operations in the North-west and North-central.
- When
- The directive was given on Friday. The article was published on 11 October 2026.
- Where
- The directive was given in Abuja; the operations are in Nigeria’s North-west and North-central.
- Why
- To enhance operational effectiveness and troops’ situational awareness.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
As we speak now, they are supporting Operation Hadin Kai, and I have given instructions that they should extend that to Operation Fansan Yamma in the North-West and Operation Savannah Shield in the North-Central
The Defence Space Administration was established.
Nigeria’s military satellite DELSAT-1 was launched.
Oluyede directed the DSA to extend support to operations in the North-west and North-central at the agency’s anniversary event in Abuja.
- Existing operation supported
- Operation Hadin Kai, North-east
- North-west operation
- Operation Fansan Yamma
- North-central operation
- Operation Savannah Shield
- Military satellite
- DELSAT-1, launched in 2022
- DSA anniversary
- 12th anniversary, Abuja
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