Tag: Chief of Defence Staff
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BREAKING: Former Chief of Defence Staff is dead
A former Chief of Defence Staff, Adm. Ibrahim Ogohi, has passed on after a brief illness at the age of 75. In a brief statement by the Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, on Sunday
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Chief of Defence Staff as chief of complaints, lamentations – By Owei Lakemfa
NIGERIA is at war. Nigerians rely on the government to prosecute and win the war. In turn, government relies on the Armed Forces to win the war. But the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, who is expected to lead the armed forces to war and win, has become the Chief of Complaints and…
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PHOTOS: Former Chief of Defence Staff, Irabor returns to Nigeria to wife’s warm embrace
Former Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor returned to the shores of Nigeria on Wednesday to the warm embrace of his wife, Barr Mrs Victoria Irabor.
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Why Nigerians should not wear military uniforms – Chief of Defence Staff, Irabor
Why Nigerians should not wear military uniforms
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Abacha’s former Chief of Defence Staff, Dogonyaro is dead
The former Chief of Defence Staff to late Gen. Sani Abacha, Lt-Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro has died. He died at the age of 80. Late retired Lt. Gen. Dogonyaro, a soldier and an administrator, was born on Sept. 12, 1940 in Vom, Plateau State, though a native of Taroh in Langtang North Local Government Area. Dogonyaro…
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BREAKING: Former Chief of Defence Staff pulls out of service, says military reformed
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on Tuesday in Abuja, officially pulled out of the Nigerian Army in a parade at the Mogadishu Cantonment, Asokoro. Olonisakin, pulled out following his retirement and appointment of his successor, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, by President Muhammadu Buhari on Jan. 26. As part of the…
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Delta is proud of you, Okowa tells new Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Irabor
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated Maj-Gen. Lucky E.O Irabor on his appointment as Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The governor’s felicitation was conveyed in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Tuesday in Asaba. He said that the sacrifices of the new defence…
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Insecurity: Olonisakin heads ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff, on Wednesday appointed Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin as the new chairman of the committee. The handing over and acceptance ceremony was held at the 39th Ordinary Meeting of the Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) at the…
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UPDATED: Former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh shot dead [PHOTOS]
Former Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh has been killed by unknown gunmen in Abuja. He was going to Abuja this evening when he was attacked by gunmen and killed. Nigerian Airforce spokesman Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola confirmed the death in a tweet this evening. ”It is with a heavy heart that…