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The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has issued guidelines on social media use to military personnel, SaharaReporters can exclusively reveal.
Documents exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters showed that the guidelines arose from a policy instituted in April under the direction of General AG Olonisakin, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
The 10-page document, titled 'Policy On The Use Of Social Media For The Armed Forces of Nigeria', seeks to prevent the use of social media platforms without restraint by military personnel, and also has implications for the military-related social-media activity of friends and families of military personnel.
Explaining the reason for introducing the policy, the DHQ noted that Nigeria's adversaries will, without doubt, be keen on mining information from social media communication by members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) for immediate or future use."It should thus be expected that current and even potential adversaries constantly look for posts by AFN personnel on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc and even check the GPS tags of some transmissions. The AFN, therefore, needs to take measures necessary to prevent such adversaries from obtaining information of operational security value from the social media communication of personnel," explained the DHQ.
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