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• You’re fuelling tension, ethnic distrust, YCE, Southeast groups blast President • Buhari appoints Mohammed as NAPTIP DG, Abari NOA DG Six days after the tragic death of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, in a plane crash in Kaduna State, the Nigerian Army got a new chief, Major-General Farouk Yahaya, following his appointment as the new COAS yesterday by President Muhammadu Buhari. The announcement followed the end of three-day mourning after the Fe...

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Six days after the tragic death of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, in a plane crash in Kaduna State, the Nigerian Army got a new chief, Major-General Farouk Yahaya, following his appointment as the new COAS yesterday by President Muhammadu Buhari. The announcement followed the end of three-day […]

BREAKING: Forceful Retirement Of About 10 Top Army Generals Looms As Farouk Yahaya Becomes Army Chief There are at least 10 Major-Generals from the 35 and 36 Regular Courses still in the Nigerian Army according to records. by SaharaReporters, New York May 27, 2021 About 10 Nigerian Army Major-Generals may have to retire from the service following the emergence of Major-General Farouk Yahaya as the 22nd Chief of the Army Staff. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Yahaya on Thursday to replace t...

Views: 502 About 10 Nigerian Army Major-Generals may have to retire from the service following the emergence of Major-General Farouk Yahaya as the 22nd Chief of the Army Staff. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Yahaya on Thursday to replace the late Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died alongside 10 other military officers in a military plane crash in Kaduna last Friday. It was gathered that Yahaya, who until his appointment was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadan Kai (formerly Lafiya Dol...

Chuks Okocha and Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja With Friday’s death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, in an air crash in Kaduna, the race for who succeeds him has begun in earnest. The appointment of the chief of army staff is the prerogative of the president. Although there are speculations that the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Maj. Gen. Danjuma Ali-Keffi, had been appointed in acting capacity, military authorities yesterday declined t...