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BREAKING: Buhari appoints new Chief of Army Staff.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Prior to his appointment, Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the Theatre Commander of a military counter-terrorism unit in the North East.
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The appointment came barely six days after the former Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 officers died in a plane crash in Kaduna.
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