President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
He replaces Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an air crash last Friday.
A statement by the Acting Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, made available to journalists in Abuja on Thursday, conveyed the appointment.
It read in part, “The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
“Prior to his appointment Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counter terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North East code named Operation Hadin Kai.”
Yahaya is of Regular Course 37 of the Nigerian Defence Academy and hails from Zamfara State.
He took over the Theatre Commander Operation Hadin Kai from Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, who was redeployed to the Nigerian Army Resource Centre as Senior Research Fellow.
Yahaya was also the Commander of 4 Brigade Headquarters of the Nigerian Army.
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