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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 were lost, several terrorists were eliminated.
Terrorists didn’t kill 20 soldiers in North-East – Nigerian Army
Nigerian Army confirmed attacks on troops providing security for road construction workers along Goniri–Kafa on February 5 and on Geidam on February 9 but did not disclose the number of soldiers killed.
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The Nigerian Army has dismissed reports of killing of 20 soldiers by Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in the North-East Theatre of Operation Lafiya Dole.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Mohammad Yerima, via a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, said the information was false.
Mr Yerima, a brigadier-general, described the report by an online medium, titled; “Nigerian Army Keeps Mum As Boko Haram Terrorists Kill ‘20 Soldiers’ In Borno” as false, fake and baseless.
Generals Irabor and Attahiru: From TRADOC To Becoming Service Chiefs, By Yushau A. Shuaib 5 min read
Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor handed over to Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru as Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, in Maiduguri in 2017
The new service chiefs…should be aware that is not how long they are in office that really matters, but the swiftness of the sea-change in the impact that they bring to bear on Nigeria’s deeply deteriorating security situation, towards the reclamation of national safety and stability.
The story of Major Generals Lucky Irabor and Ibrahim Attahiru, the new chief of defence staff and chief of army staff, respectively, is like that of two blood brothers following one another.
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Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff – How Borno indigene foretold his elevation in 2016
In 2016, Ibrahim Uba Yusuf, an indigene of Borno was so impressed with new Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor that he declared him his man of the year in a local publication in Maiduguri.
Before then, the entire Sambisa Forest had fallen to Gboko Haram but Irabor led the operations that recovered greater part of the forest. Yusuf celebrated Irabor this way: “The year 2016 is remarkable to not only the people of Borno or North East but also the whole of Nigeria because of the fall of camp and hideout of the Boko Haram leader Shekau in Sambisa.
EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - During both the South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting and the El Dorado County Board of Supervisor meetings on January 5, questions were asked of the health care professionals as to when the public can expect to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
Barton Hospital President/CEO Dr. Clint Purvance told the Council that over 60 percent of the hospital s top tier have been vaccinated and they will be receiving their second round Tuesday or Wednesday. He said they have seen some minor reactions such as a sore are, but nothing different than what the studies showed on test groups.