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President Buhari appoints Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff
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Farouk Yahaya is COAS (Presidency)
Farouk replaces Attahiru who was appointed in January and died in May.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
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Yahaya replaces Lt. Gen Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash, alongside 10 other officers on May 21, 2021.
Yahaya was General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army.
He is currently the Theatre Commander of the counter insurgency military unit for the restive northeast region, code-named 'Operation HADIN KAI.'
Yahaya is Nigeria's 26th Chief of Army Staff.
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