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Vanguard News The hard choice of the Next Army Chief — Oluyemi Fasipe On By Oluyemi Fasipe The sudden death on Friday of the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, has thrown up controversy over who becomes the next army chief. Mr Attahiru and 10 other military officers died in a military plane mishap in Kaduna. Going by history, the appointment of the chief of army staff is influenced by both political and military considerations. However, It is the prerogative of the president to decide u...

Views: Visits 13 By Oluyemi Fasipe The sudden death on Friday of the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, has thrown up controversy over who becomes the next army chief. Mr Attahiru and 10 other military officers died in a military plane mishap in Kaduna. Going by history, the appointment of the chief of army staff is influenced by both political and military considerations. However, It is the prerogative of the president to decide using the information at his disposal. Informa...

Insurgency: Attahiru would’ve made Nigeria proud — Buratai On …2 serving GOCs, Corp’s Commander, ex-Force Commander, MNJTF, former GOC being screened for next COAS appointment …Reps suspend security summit in honour of late Army Chief, others …CAN Youth Wing declares three-day mourning By Kingsley Omonobi, Luminous Jannamike & Tordue Salem Former Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt General Tukur Buratai, retd, said yesterday in a tribute that the late Ibrahim Attahiru, his successor, was...

Graphic Online BY: Brig. Gen. Dan Frimpong (Rtd) Category: Opinion 30.5k Shares 705 ”GEN. Erskine is no more” was the terse message announcing the death of Lt Gen. Emmanuel Alexander Erskine at the 37 Military Hospital on May 7, 2021 at age 86. In his column in the Daily Graphic of April 9, 2021, Communications Consultant and veteran writer Enimil Ashon, celebrating Dr Joyce Aryee on her 75th birthday stated as follows: “It is impossible to write about Dr Joyce Aryee in the Daily Graphic...

UNIFIL coordinates with Lebanon to prevent threats to security of south A vehicle of the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL is seen as they stand guard in the southernmost area of Naqoura, by the border with Israel, Naqoura, Lebanon on 14 October 2020. [Ali Abdo - Anadolu Agency] May 20, 2021 at 9:32 am The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) operating in southern Lebanon announced that it was coordinating with the Lebanese army to strengthen security controls in its area of opera...

UNAMID hands over its headquarters in Central Darfur Format The United Nations – African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) completed its mandate on 31 December 2020. Initially, the closure of the UNAMID team sites was planned to end by 16 June, but it was decided to accelerate the drawdown before the start of the wet season to avoid further complications. On 6 May, the UNAMID handed over its former headquarters in Zalingei to the governor of West Darfur representing the Sudanese government. Th...

Description The Council started its work this morning with closed consultations on the Middle East. Council members heard an update on the situation in occupied East Jerusalem from the UN Special Coordinator, Tor Wennesland. In the Central African Republic, peacekeepers have been deployed since yesterday morning to help secure the town of Bakouma, which is about 130 km north of Bangassou. Our colleagues on the ground say they remain appalled by the ongoing violence at the hands...

Graphic Online BY: Enoch Darfah Frimpong The 86-year-old Lt Gen is survived by a wife and eight children. Family sources confirmed the death of the man who was the first commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1978 to 1981. He was also a former Chief of Army Staff of the Ghana Army and commanded the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon He had his training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and...

Saturday, 1 May 2021, 5:47 am UN Photo/Violaine Martin | UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the Informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus in Geneva. UN Secretary-General pledged on Thursday that he would continue to represent the interests of all Cypriots in future talks on the divided Mediterranean island, as an informal effort to break the impasse ended, without finding common ground. “The truth is that in the end of our efforts we have not yet found enough common ground to allow for the...

UN chief ‘realistic’ at start of fresh bid to resolve Cyprus stalemate April 27, 2021 File photo shows the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) controls the buffer zone between the opposing sides. — courtesy UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe GENEVA — A fresh United Nations-led bid to seek to resolve decades of tensions in Cyprus began in Geneva on Tuesday, with Secretary General António Guterres “realistic” about the chances o...