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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 the late Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died alongside 10 other military officers in a military plane...

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 Dole) in the North-East is from 37 Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy while his predecessor...

Buhari Snubbs Anambra's Ahanotu, Appoints Another Northerner As New COAS By Izunna Okafor Listen to article Ndi Igbo and the entire southern Nigeria have lost it again, as President Muhammadu Buhari snubbed them and appointed another northerner as the new Chief of Army Staff. According to a statement issued on Thursday, by the Acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the new Chief of Army Staff is Major General Farouk Yahaya, who hails from Bodinga Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The statement reads, "The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of t...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The determinants include the experience, competence, tribe and region of the incoming successor. It is believed the presidency is yet to decide due to the number of recommendations from the military circle and influential persons. Major Generals being considered are either from the same tribe or same state with other security chiefs. But some retired security officers with strong political connections are mounting pressure on the authorities to consider only competence, merit and war experience. They are warning that any decision based on nepotism could spell doom...

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 to speak on the matter. However, a report by an online newspaper, PRNigeria, gathered that Ali-Keffi ...