By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent)
The newly appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Faruk Yahaya, will officially assume command as the 22nd COAS today, Friday, May 28, 2021.
A brief statement on Thursday night by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Mohammed Yerima, said the ceremony is expected to start by 10am at the Army Headquarters, Area 10, Garki,Abuja.
General Yahaya succeeds Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a plane crash along with ten other senior military officers in Kaduna last Friday, May 21, 2021. Their remains were laid to rest last Saturday at the National Military Cemetery, along Airport road, Abuja. NNL.