The new Acting Director of Defence Information, Onyema Nwachukwu, has resumed duty at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in Abuja.
Nwachukwu was handed the baton in a brief handing-over ceremony on Friday.
Outgoing Defence spokesman, John Agim, said he felt fulfilled for attaining the peak of his career in the military as the ceremony marked his disengagement from the service.
Nwachukwu called for partnership with the media, saying: “May I seize this opportunity to remind us as media and public relations professionals, that publicity has been severally identified as the oxygen of terrorism. It is the life of the terrorists and keeps them going.
“Terrorism is a societal ill and an aberration. It is a threat to our collective peace, unity and national development and must not be allowed to thrive.
“It is therefore pertinent, to work hands in gloves to deny our common adversary the oxygen of publicity and crush the grandiose ego of terrorism.”
Nwachukwu was the spokesman for Operation Lafiya Dole in the Northeast before his new appointment.
