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Malam Isa Gusau. Zulum, who commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the choice of Yahaya, said the development showed the Buhari’s consistency and commitment in combatting insurgency in the North East. “ With the appointment of General Yahaya, the country has retained the advantage of having in place service chiefs who have all served in Borno and have sufficient operational knowledge in the fight against Boko Haram and ISWAP. “While warmly congratulating the new Chief of Army Staff, I will like to gladly acknowledge that Mr President’s choice of Major General Farouk ...

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has urged the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, to sustain the fight against insurgents,

Daily Post Nigeria Published Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru died in an air crash in Kaduna on Friday. Attahiru, a Hausa, was born on August 10, 1966. Intriguingly, he hailed from Doka in Kaduna, the State he passed away. Attahiru was among the Service Chiefs appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021. The rest are General Leo Irabor – Chief of Defence Staff; Vice Admiral A. Z. Gambo – Chief of Naval Staff, and Air Marshal I. O. Amao – Chief of Air Staff. In four months, the Nigerian Army under Attahiru recorded considerable success. Though troops...

The clamour to replace the former chiefs was not because people were tired of seeing their faces. Their overstay had caused problems within the military services because sets of officers junior to them had had to retire without having a chance to reach the peak of their careers. For the wider public though, the main concern was that the war against insurgency and banditry has dragged on for too long, with no end in sight, and there were fears that the old service chiefs had run out of fresh ideas. Maybe they had, but history must be kind to the former service chiefs. Buratai, for example, unf...

At the meeting, the president charged them to be patriotic, and serve the country well. His words:  “We’re in a state of emergency. Be patriotic, serve the country well, as your loyalty is to the country.” The President congratulated the Service Chiefs on heading their various services, adding:  “There’s nothing I can tell you about the service because you are in it. I was also in it, and I will pray for you. I also assure you that whatever I can do as Commander-in-Chief will be done, so that the people will appreciate your efforts. “You know the stage we were in 2015, you know ...