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President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide, Basil Onuorah, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint an officer of South-East origin as the next Inspector-General of Police. Onuorah made the call in a statement on Wednesday in reaction to the appointment of new Service Chiefs. He commended Buhari for yielding to Nigerians’ demand. Onuorah charged the new military chiefs to get prepared for “the onerous task and challenges of insecurity in our country”. He, however, lamented that despite the cries of Igbo people, the President failed to pick a Service Chief f...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The meeting which was held behind closed doors on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the service chiefs, who were appointed on Tuesday, arrived at the villa in their old official vehicles at about 4.00p.m. NAN gathered that the new service chiefs – Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Adm. Awwal Zubairu Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff and AVM Isiaka Amao, Chief of Air Staff – may be decorated with their ranks by the president at the meeting. The service chiefs replaced former Ch...

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, appointed new heads of the Army, Air Force and Navy. He also appointed a new Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, a major general.

Here are brief profiles of the new service chiefs: Major General L.E.O. Irabor Chief of Defence Staff Maj-Gen Leo Irabor Irabor hails from Agbor in Delta state and he’s a member 34 Regular Course of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA). He’s an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife as he also holds two Masters Degrees from the University of Ghana, Accra, and Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka. Before his appointment as the new CDS, Major General Irabor was Chief of Training and Operations, Defence headquarters. The General was formerly the Theatre Commander of OPERATION LA...

Channels Television     President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed new Service Chiefs following the resignation of the former officers. Major-General Leo Irabor replaced General Abayomi Olonisakin as Chief of Defence Staff; Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao replaced Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar as Chief of Air Staff; Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo replaced Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas as Chief of Naval Staff; while General Ibrahim Attahiru replaced Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai as Chief of Army Staff. Below is a brief profile of the new officers. Chief of Defence Staff...