(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by military spokesperson Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu.
Major General Yahaya replaces Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash last Friday.
Prior to his appointment, Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the Theatre Commander of a military counter-terrorism unit in the North East.
Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu’s statement reads:
“The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.