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Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Attahiru

May 29, 2021

COAS appointment as missed opportunity for national unity

Progressive Muslim northerners are embarrassed to no end by the extreme and unprecedented Arewaization of appointments by the Buhari regime.

Farouk Yahaya
May 23, 2021

Buhari in face-saving call to late Attahiru, other fallen heroes’ widows

Mr Buhari has come under public hammer after his ‘no-show’ at the burial ceremony of his army chief and other military brass hats who died in active service.

Buhari on phone
May 22, 2021

Nigerian Army announces burial plans for Attahiru, six others

Mr Attahiru and six other deceased from the army would be buried on Saturday in Abuja.

May 22, 2021

Buhari shocked over the death of Chief of Army Staff Attahiru, others

Mr Attahiru and 10 others died in an air crash in Kaduna on Friday.

President Muhammadu Buhari
May 21, 2021

Nigeria’s chief of army staff Ibrahim Attahiru killed in plane crash

The incident occurred on Friday in Kaduna, The Gazette learnt.

Ibrahim Attahiru
May 4, 2021

Defence Headquarters warns soldiers against overthrowing Buhari regime

The army further warned that the military high command would not tolerate misguided politicians who nursed the inordinate ambition to rule the country outside the ballot box.

April 29, 2021

We’re still committed to wiping out Boko Haram: Army Chief

The army chief said that Boko Haram had been defeated in many encounters and would continue to be defeated.

Ibrahim Attahiru
April 26, 2021

New service chiefs need time to understand Nigeria’s security system: Orji Kalu

“It is not an immediate thing, it is not just removing one and bringing another that solves the problem.”

Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu
April 26, 2021

Boko Haram overruns battalion headquarters, kills army commander, 30 soldiers

The insurgents reportedly disguised as friendly troops to enter the fortified headquarters of the powerful 156 Task Force Battalion in Mainok.

April 9, 2021

Bandits: Army confirms killing of 11 soldiers in Benue

“The Nigerian army appeal to the public to volunteer useful information that will lead to the arrest of the perpetrators of this dastardly act.”

Ibrahim Attahiru