The new Chief of Army Staff, Maj Gen. Farouk Yahaya, has paid his last respect to his predecessor, late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru. Attahiru and other military officers had died in an air crash last Friday in Kaduna. They were buried the following day. Yahaya signed the condolence register at the headquarters of the Theatre […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says the death of Army Chief, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other military officers in an air crash had increased the country’s problem. The President had on Monday spoke when the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Kayode Fayemi, and his colleagues visited him at the Presidential Villa to console him. Fayemi was […]
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An ex-Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has requested that President Buhari consider an Igbo military officer to replace the former Chief of Army Staff. Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who was killed in the air crash last Friday, May 21. According to Reno, this move will help cease the fight of secessionists. He wrote; ”The best way […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari was absent at the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Saturday. Attahiru died in a plane crash close to the Kaduna Airport on Friday evening. 10 other officers also lost their lives when the Beachcraft 350 aircraft came down due to bad weather. Their remains were […]
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Officials of Nigerian Air Force, NAF, on Friday night paid a condolence visit to the family of Flt.-Lt. Taiwo Asaniyi, pilot of the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 plane that crashed in Kaduna State. The crash killed the Chief of Army of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other officers. Asaniyi and three other crew members also […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other military personnel on Friday in an air crash. Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, expressed sadness over the incident, describing the victims of the crash as […]
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Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru has died in an air crash on Friday. He was aboard a military aircraft for an official trip in Kaduna. According to reports Attahiru died with his aides in a plane crash.
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru has renamed the counter-insurgency Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK). Hadin Kai is a Hausa phrase which literally means “cooperation.” Yerima disclosed that the development was premised on the fact that the Nigerian Army (NA) had made a lot of progress over […]
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By Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler Nigerian Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, stated his vision to rebuild the Nigerian Army into a formidable force to defeat all adversaries. He made this assertion at the opening ceremony of the combined COAS First Quarter Conference and Nigerian Army Operations Retreat 2021 […]
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has said the Nigerian Army will remain resolute in dealing with the prevailing security threats across Nigeria in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive. Mr Attahiru made this statement at the opening of the Combined Chief of Army Staff First Quarter Conference and Nigerian Army Operations […]
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