Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla has approved the appointment of a new Director of Naval Information, Commodore Aiwuyor Augustine Adams-Aliu.
In a statement signed by the Chief of Policy and Plans, Rear Admiral Joseph Akpan, the new spokesperson, Commodore Adams-Aliu took over from Rear Admiral Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan who has been redeployed to Headquarters Naval Training Command as the Chief Staff Officer.
Commodore Aiwuyor Augustine Adams-Aliu was born on December 15, 1977 in Lagos and he attended the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA Kaduna in 1995, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry in 1999 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Navy in the year 2000 as a member of 47 Regular Course.
Commodore Adams-Aliu was deployed as a Directing Staff and Member of Faculty at the Naval War College Nigeria. In March 2023, he assumed office as the Commanding Officer Forward Operating Base Badagry, and was later appointed Deputy Director Plans at Naval Headquarters in January 2024. The next month, he was elevated to the post of Director, Naval Information, DINFO.
Adams-Aliu’s career experience which traverses command duties ashore and afloat, staff duties and training of subordinate officers exposed him to the gamut of Naval operations and administration thus equipping him for higher responsibilities such as his recent appointment as DINFO.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
