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 LAFIYA DOLE, North-East Nigeria as well as Force Commander Multinational Joint Task Force in the Lake Chad Basin Area. The operations focused on Counter-Terrorism/Counterinsurgency.
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Profiles of Nigeria’s new Service Chiefs
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By Evelyn Usman
After many years of outcry from citizens to sack service chiefs over worsening insecurity across the nation, Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday in an unprecedented move accepted the immediate resignation of the Service Chiefs, and their retirement from service while naming new officers to take over.
Chief of Defence Staff
Major General Leo Irabor
The new Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Leo Irabor, was born on October 5, 1965. He hails from Ika South of Delta State. He is a member of regular course 34 of the Nigerian Defence Academy.
ART-ICLES
Here is the first rule before Omooba Yemisi Shyllon’s stately presence: the interviewer, poised with his pen and notebook, must have his wits about him. Otherwise, chances are that he risked losing the thread of this conversation. For it is the portly 68-year-old’s stock in trade to be both eclectic and encyclopaedic in his discussion of any subject matter. True, his renown as Nigeria’s – if not Africa’s – leading art patron may be more often talked about in the media. Still, his polymathic credentials – burnished by his membership of the Nigerian Bar Association as well as his being a fellow of such professional bodies as the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, Institute of Directors- Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Management, Chartered Institute of Stock Brokers, Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Marketing of the UK – tend to assert themselves in the course of a prolonged conversation.
Akin Aboluwade
The new Commissioner of Police in the Oyo State Command, Ngozi Vivian Onadeko, has reiterated her commitment to stemming the tide of crime in the state, barring all odds.
Onadeko explained that her mission in the state is to ensure maximum security of lives and property of residents.
She spoke on Friday at the command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan during the handing over ceremony from her predecessor, Nwachukwu Enwonwu.
Onadeko is the first female Commissioner of Police to assume such position in Oyo State.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the command, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, in a statement, said the former CP would be going to the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State for a course.