Breaking News | Breaking: Buhari to retire 68 major generals to pave way for incoming COAS

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Following the appointment of the new Chief of Army Staff Major General Farouk Yahaya, sixty-eight generals will be forced to retire.
General Farouk takes over from Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash last Friday, May 21, alongside 10 other military officers in Kaduna.
Prior to his appointment, Farouk was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadan Kai (formerly Lafiya Dole) in the North-East is from 37 regular course of the Nigerian Defence Academy while his predecessor, the late Attahiru was from course 35.
When Buhari appointed the present crop of service chiefs in January, no fewer than 20 generals from the three services who were members of courses 34 and 35 were retired to pave way for them.

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