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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, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Chief of ...

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 administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Boko Haram terrorist group held sway in parts of North-East ...