COAS

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has called on officers and personnel conducting the ongoing selection exercise for the 81 Regular Recruits Intake into the Nigerian Army to be fair and firm. Yahaya gave the directive…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday decorated Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Farouk Yahaya, with the Lieutenant-General rank at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He was assisted by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Buhari performed the…
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The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has approved the appointment of Principal Staff Officers (PSOs), Field Commanders and other key staff officers to provide the needed vigour in his command of the Nigerian Army (NA).…
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The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Maj. Gen Faruk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff (COAS), the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The confirmation followed the adoption of the report of the Senate joint Committee on Defence and…
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The Nigerian Army has clarified that the new Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya’s service record started on Sept. 22, 1990 when he was commissioned as an officer. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima,…
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The curtain has been drawn for about 24 Major Generals in the Nigerian Army as their military career may soon come to a 'sudden' end following the appointment of Major General Faruq Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), PRNigeria…
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DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS MINISTRY OF DEFENCE P. M. B 309 GARKI – ABUJA PRESS RELEASE                                                             27 May 2021 PROFILE OF THE NEW CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF MAJOR GENERAL FARUK YAHAYA The…
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By Muhammad Mohammed Although the death of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other senior Army officers and personnel was well-conceived as a supreme price to the fatherland, the dexterity demonstrated by the…
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Barely 72 hours after the death of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru in a plane crash, there is a political dilemma over the region and likely tribe of the person that could be appointed for the Nigerian Army's top…
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The remains of the late Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other officers who died in a plane crash on Friday in Kaduna have arrived at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja for final funeral rites. The officers died in a…
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