chiefs. The late president Yar'Adua, had followed the stead of his predecessor, chief Olusegun Obasanjo, by appointing service chiefs, including chief of Army staff, chief of naval staff, chief of Air staff, and Director of the State Security Service without recourse to the National Assembly...
President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday announced the appointment of Major-General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao, Chief of Air Staff a...
The ex-service chiefs, who retired last January, are Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. President Buhari ...
Militarytroops in the counter-terrorism operation in the northeast have overpowered Boko Haram insurgents in a crossfire at the hometown of the former Chief of Army Staff, in the southern part of Borno. Dozens of terrorists stormed Buratai, hometown of Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, former army chief,...
Firstly, the argument was that the appointment of the Service Chiefs, made up of the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ete Ekwe Ibas and ...
34 officers from the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ), Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS), and staff members form the President's department, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Defence and officers fro...
Vice Admiral O.S. Ibrahim (Kwara) was appointed the new Chief of Defence Staff, while Rear Admiral D.J Ezeoba (Delta) was named Chief of Naval Staff.
from leading the Boko Haram war by the outgone Chief of Army Staff. I fault the obviously skewed and partial appointments which is due to the fact that the Office of the Chief of Army Staff, has been made the exclusive preserve of the Northerners by the President Buhari-led administration....
Given the pattern of events in the past six (6) years of president Muhammadu Buhari’s stewardship as president and Commander-in-Chief of The Armed Forces of Nigeria, it is easy to conclude that mr president is a Fulani irredentist and an apologist.
Retired Army, Naval and Air Force officers have expressed divergent opinions over calls for the sack of service chiefs, with many urging President Muhammadu Buhari to show the military heads the exit door. They all acknowledged that the rising insecurity in Nigeria questioned the capability of s...