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Army Chief, Buratai Poses With Snake In His Farm, Keeps Mum On Katsina Abduction It has been a week since gunmen invaded a government school in Kankara, Katsina State, abducting over 300 schoolboys and Buratai had not made a public comment, amidst calls for the sack of the perceived inefficient service chiefs. by Saharareporters, New York Dec 17, 2020 The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has visited his snake farm along the Keffi-Abuja Expressway in Nasarawa State, posing with a large snake, amidst the COVID-19 isolation which he and other top army officers are still observing. The...

Channels Television     More concerns seem to be growing in the Nigerian Army after 26 generals who had contact with Major General Olu Irefin tested positive for COVID-19. Late Irefin, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division, fell ill last week while attending the 2020 Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja. He was later taken to a military hospital where he died of respiratory failure secondary to the complications of COVID-19 infection. General Irefin was said to have visited some of his colleagues before the conference, and Channels Television gathered that 26 generals tested p...

A senior military personnel at Army headquarters told Daily Trust that they may have contracted it from the late Maj. Gen. Johnson Irefin, who died few days ago. “There is no doubt that they contracted it (COVID-19) during the just cancelled conference. We pray they get well soon,” he said. The source added the late General Irefin was said to have visited some of his colleagues at home before he attended the conference. Thereafter, all the officers who attended the conference, their wives, and other members of their families who live with them, were directed to isolate themselves for a w...

Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Aiyetoro-Gbede people in Kogi State have rejected the claims by the military authorities that their kinsman, the late Major General Olubunmi Irefin, died of COVID-19-related complications. They have therefore vowed to investigate the real cause of his death. Their rejection was contained in a statement signed on behalf of the Ayetoro-Gbede Traditional Council and the Ayetoro Development Association on Saturday by Chief A.A. Aminu Senator Dino Melaye, who is from the town, confirmed the authenticity of the press statement when contacted. Aminu said he issued the sta...

By Seun Adeuyi The Aiyetoro-Gbede Community in Kogi State, kinsmen to late Major General Olubunmi Irefin, have rejected the statement from the military high command that the late general died of COVID-19-related complications and vowed to investigate the real cause of his death. They insisted that the deceased was full of life in Ayetoro Gbede two weeks earlier when he returned for the burial ceremony of his late mother and participated fully in all communal engagements until a signal came for him come to Abuja for the Chief of Army Staff Conference. The community vowed to explore every detai...