{"id":9959,"date":"2018-06-21T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2018-06-21T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:11:58","slug":"air-force-rescues-three-in-zamfara-plans-more-coordinated-air-and-ground-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9959","title":{"rendered":"Air Force rescues three in Zamfara, plans more coordinated air and ground operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya<\/strong>,\u00a0Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through its 207 Quick Response Group (QRG) in Gusau, Tuesday, 19 June 2018, successfully executed coordinated air and ground operations on armed bandits\u2019 position at Daji Kagara area of Zurmi LGA in Zamfara State, leading to the rescue of three kidnap victims that had been held captive for weeks.<br \/>\nThe mission, which was conducted by NAF Special Forces personnel, followed human intelligence reports and subsequent confirmation, by NAF Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, of the hideout of the armed bandits.<br \/>\nThe recently deployed EC-135 helicopter and one of the NAF\u2019s ISR platforms provided the needed air support for the Special Forces to execute the rescue mission.<br \/>\nRecall that the NAF recently deployed a weaponized EC-135 helicopter to 207 QRG Gusau as part of efforts aimed at intensifying the fight against armed banditry in Zamfara State and environs.<br \/>\nMore coordinated air and ground operations will be executed in the coming weeks towards improving the security situation in the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya,\u00a0Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through its 207 Quick Response Group (QRG) in Gusau, Tuesday, 19 June 2018, successfully executed coordinated air and ground operations on armed bandits\u2019 position at Daji Kagara area of Zurmi LGA in Zamfara State, leading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}