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The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), has dismissed criticism of his nomination as ambassador-designate, saying he performed creditably well during his tenure.
By Kingsley Nwezeh The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), has dismissed criticism of his nomination as ambassador-designate, saying he performed creditably well during his tenure. He cited the compilation by officers at the Army Headquarters on projects and infrastructural development he embarked upon all over the country as evidence of his good job. He spoke on Sunday night in Abuja during a dinner organised in his honour by members of 29th Regular Course Association. Commenting on his appointment as an envoy and that of his colleagues, Buratai said: âItâ...
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 ...
Generals Irabor and Attahiru: From TRADOC To Becoming Service Chiefs, By Yushau A. Shuaib 5 min read Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor handed over to Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru as Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, in Maiduguri in 2017 The new service chiefs…should be aware that is not how long they are in office that really matters, but the swiftness of the sea-change in the impact that they bring to bear on Nigeria’s deeply deteriorating security situation, towards the reclamation of national safety and stability. The story of Major Generals Lucky Irabor and Ibrahim Attahiru...
Vanguard News What you didn’t know about new Service Chiefs On Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff – How Borno indigene foretold his elevation in 2016 In 2016, Ibrahim Uba Yusuf, an indigene of Borno was so impressed with new Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor that he declared him his man of the year in a local publication in Maiduguri. Before then, the entire Sambisa Forest had fallen to Gboko Haram but Irabor led the operations that recovered greater part of the forest. Yusuf celebrated Irabor this way: “The year 2016 is remarkable to not only the people of Borno or North East b...