President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff following the death of Lt Ibrahim Atahiru in a plane crash on 21st May 2021.
According to the statement from the Acting Director of Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu.
The General before his appointment was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the present Theatre Commander of the Counter-Terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit for North East with code name Operation HADIN KAI.