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The 29 army generals are seniors to Farouk Yahaya who was appointed COAS on May 27.

Views: Visits 3 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 c...

TODAY March 6, 2021 The Nigerian Army has announced the appointment of new General Officers Commanding, Principal Staff Officers, commandant of tri-service institution and army training centres, corps commanders, among other positions to man the various divisions, units and commands of the service. Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Mohammed Yerima, who made this known on Saturday, said the redeployment, approved by Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, is aimed at repositioning the service for optimal performance. He said all the postings and appointments...

Advertisement Farouq Yahaya, a major general and commander of operation Lafiya Dole, was not affected in the redeployment. Lafiya Dole is the army’s foremost operation launched to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-east. The deployment of the officers comes a day after the Nigerian air force, its sister organisation, carried out a similar redeployment. Advertisement In a statement signed by Mohammed Yerima, army spokesperson, the action was said to be a bid to reposition the army for optimal performance. The army said the posting which was approved by Ibrahim Attahiru, the army ch...

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