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General News of Thursday, 27 May 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Buhari appoints new Chief of Army Staff

Major General Farouk Yahaya has been appointed new Chief of Army Staff Major General Farouk Yahaya has been appointed new Chief of Army Staff

Major General Farouk Yahaya has been appointed as the new Chief of Army Staff.

He was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari, according to a statement from Acting Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu.

He takes over from Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an air crash on Friday, May 21, 2021.

Prior to this appointment, Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the Theatre Commander of the Counter-Terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North with the code name Operation HADIN KAI.

More about the new COAS

The new COAS was born on January 5, 1966, in Sifawa, Bodinga Local Government Area of Sokoto state.

He is a member of the 37 Regular Course of the prestigious Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA).

Major-General Yahaya started his cadet training on 27 September 1985 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps on 22 September 1990.