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Mr Abubakar, a brigadier general, said it is customary for the military to honour deserving officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves.

About 30 generals were reportedly forced to retire following the appointment of their junior, Farouk Yahaya, by President Muhammadu Buhari, as COAS last week.

Kingsley Nwezeh writes that the appointment of new service chiefs has renewed hopes for a renewed onslaught against insurgents, bandits and other criminal gangs whose despicable activities have shot issues of insecurity into a national emergency With the appointment of new service chiefs last week by President Muhammadu Buhari, all eyes are now on the new military helmsmen to deliver where their predecessors failed. The appointment of the new service chiefs, notably, Major General Lucky Irabor,...

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin (retd.), has said that the armed forces reclaimed all t...

Olonisakin, who spoke at Defence Headquarters in Abuja while handing over the mantle of leadership to his successor, Maj-Gen. Lucky Irabor, said in terms of organisation, some directorates of the DHQ were upgraded to departments to make them more impactful. According to him, the department included the former Directorate of Civil-Military Affairs, which had been upgraded to a department to scale up the non-kinetic operation. “We all could recall that at the inception of the current administra...

Here are brief profiles of the new service chiefs: Major General L.E.O. Irabor Chief of Defence Staff Maj-Gen Leo Irabor Irabor hails from Agbor in Delta state and he’s a member 34 Regular Course of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA). He’s an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife as he also holds two Masters Degrees from the University of Ghana, Accra, and Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka. Before his appointment as the new CDS, Major General Irabor was Chief of Training ...