President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
In a three-paragraph statement today, May 27, the acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu said that prior to his appointment Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counter terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North East code-named Operation HADIN KAI.