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Brigadier-General Mohammed Yerima has been appointed as the new Director of Public Relations, Nigeria Army.
Yerima takes over from Brigadier General Sagir Musa who has been redeployed.
Brigadier-General Mohammed Yerima, a one-time director Defence Information was until his appointment, the deputy director reserve at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ).
Brigadier General Mohammed Yarima is member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) as well as African Public Relations Association (APRA) and Fellow of West Africa Society for Administration and Communication. He was Chairman of Media and Information Committee on Emergency Management (MICEM)
The new Army Spokesperson was a participant at Senior Strategic Media Operation programme at Reach Cambridge and at Kofi Annan Centre, Ghana. He also attended Senior Leadership Course at the Sheringham United Kingdom and undertook a US-Embassy funded Media tour of Africom in Stuttgart Germany.
Yerima obtained a BA Ed Political Science from Ahmadu Bello University before he enrolled into the Nigerian Army in October 1989 and commissioned into the Corps of Army Public Relations.
