Buhari decorates new Service Chiefs

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, March 5, 2021, decorated the new service chiefs at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

In their new ranks, the service chiefs are now General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defense Staff; Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air Marshal Ishiaka Oladayo Amoo, Chief of Air Staff.

The decoration ceremony was witnessed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha; Defense Minister, Major-General Bashir Magashi (Rtd); and the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, The Nations reports.

The new service chiefs were accompanied to the State House by their wives and other senior officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.