President Muhammadu Buhari has decorated the New Chief of Army Staff.
Gatekeepers News Reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has decorated the New Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Farouk Yahaya on Wednesday.
Buhari decorated Yahaya with the rank of lieutenant general at the State House shortly before the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, and the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, amongst others were present at the event.
The rank of lieutenant general is mostly preserved for whoever assumes the office of the chief of army staff and is the next after the rank of a major general.
On May 27, Gatekeepers News reported that President Buhari appointed Yahaya as the new army chief after the death of Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a plane crash on May 21.
The COAS until his appointment was the theatre commander of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), in the Northeast region of the country.
