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BREAKING: Buhari appoints Major General Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff
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By Idowu Bankole
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has today appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) to replace the recently demised, General Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a fatal plane crash en-route Kaduna State along with other senior officers and crew members.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff. Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, Acting Director, Defence Information, announced this in a statement on Thursday. Race to replace late army chief begins Kidnapping: Criminalising ransom payment needless, unpopular Ogun chief Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian […]
By Kingsley Nwezeh
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
His appointment follows the death of Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died last weekend in an air crash with 10 other military officers in Kaduna.
A statement issued by Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said Yahaya was General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army.
The statement signed by Defence Spokesman, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, said the new army chief was the current Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai, formerly Lafiya Dole.
“The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
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 the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
Buhari shifts FEC meeting, laments COAS, others’ death The Punch
Published 25 May 2021
THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday directed that the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday be postponed for one week.
He also directed that the Police Council meeting initially scheduled for Thursday be rescheduled till next week Thursday.
According to a statement by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, the postponement was in honour of the Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others, who died in an air crash in Kaduna on Friday.
The statement was titled ‘Postponement of the Federal Executive Council and the Police Council meetings.’