President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
A statement in Abuja on Thursday by Onyema Nwachukwu, a Brigadier General and Acting Director Defence Information announced the appointment.
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 Counterterrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North East code-named Operation HADIN KAI.
Yahaya’s appointment follows the death of the immediate former Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash on Friday, May 21 in Kaduna in the company of 10 other officers while on an official trip.