New COAS Maj. Gen Yahaya assumes office

The newly-appointed Chief of Army Staff Major General Farouk Yahaya officially begun his tenure on Friday, May 28, 2021.

He started by inspecting the Quarter Guard.

The new COAS succeeds Lieutenant Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash exactly one week ago in Kaduna state alongside other military officers.

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

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.

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