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.
Nigerians not in position to assess new service chiefs –Femi Adesina
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to
the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says Nigerians are not
in position to assess the competence or suitability of the new service chiefs
appointed by his principal.
“You and I would not be able to assess them because we are
civilians. To use the word of the military, we are bloody civilians. We would
not know. So, we are not in a position to assess these service chiefs and why
they were appointed,” Adesina said Tuesday on Channels Television’s Politics
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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.
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