ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday , appointed new Service Chiefs and the National Security Adviser.
L-R: Air
Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar – Chief of Air Staff; Rear Admiral
Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas – Chief of Naval Staff ;Major-General Abayomi Gabriel
Olonishakin – Chief of Defence Staff and Air Vice Marshal Monday Riku
Morgan – Chief of Defence Intelligence
See their profiles
1. Chief of Army Staff, Major-General T.Y. Buratai
Burati, Chief of Army Staff
Major General TY Buratai was the Force Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) before his appointment.
He has served as the Director at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja
before his and has also served as the Commandant of the Nigerian Army
School of Infantry.
He sometimes served as the Brigade Commander at 2 Brigade, Nigerian
Army as well as Commander, Joint Task Force, Operation PULO SHIELD.
Major-General Babagana Monguno (rtd.) – National Security Adviser
Has worked as Commander, Nigerian Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is Maj.-Gen. Babagana Mungonu.
2 Major-General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin – Chief of Defence Staff
The newChief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Olonishakin(N/6901)
hails from Ekiti State. Until his appointment as Chief of Defence Staff
today, he was the Head of the Nigerian Army Training and Doctrine
Command in Minna, Niger State.
Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas – Chief of Naval Staff
Ibas
hails from Cross River State. He enlisted into the Nigerian Defence
Academy as a member of the 26th Regular Course in 1979 and was
commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in 1983.
His previous appointments include: Naval Provost Marshal, Chief Staff
Officer, Naval Training Command, Chief of Administration, Naval
Headquarters, Flag Officer Commanding Western Naval Command and Chief of
Logistics, Naval Headquarters.
Until his appointment as Chief of Naval Staff, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Navy Holdings Limited.
Air Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar – Chief of Air Staff
(NAF/1433) hails from Bauchi State. His previous
appointments include: Chief of Standards and Evaluation, NAF
Headquarters; Chief of Defence Communications and Air Officer
Commanding, NAF Training Command.
Air Vice Marshal Monday Riku Morgan – Chief of Defence Intelligence
Biafra,
officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in south
eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970, taking
its name from the Bight of Biafra.Wikipedia
ibtimes.co.ukBiafra history
The
Eastern Region, a former federal division of Nigeria with capital
Enugu, became a secessionist state called Republic of Biafra after
gaining independence from Nigeria in 1967. It was re-annexed in 1970
following the Nigerian-Biafran war that claimed one million lives.
After
the end of the British rule in 1960, Nigeria was comprised of
territories that were not part of the nation before the colonisation,
resulting in escalating tensions among the communities. People in the
Eastern Region, mainly from the Igbo community, wanted to secede due to
ethnic, religious and economic differences with other communities in
Nigeria. Children suffering from malnutrition during the Biafran War(IBTimes AU)The
Eastern Region gained independence following two coup d'etats in 1966
and 1967. The fact that Nigeria's oil was located in the south of the
country played a major role in the eruption of the war, during which
medicines and food shortage in Biafra led to the death of thousands of
people.
Biafra has been commonly divided into four main "tribes": the Ibos, the Ibibio-Efiks, the Ijaws and the Ogojas.
The
modern-day states that made up Biafra from the eastern region and
midwest are: Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Enugu, Ebonyi, ,Imo,
Delta, Rivers and Cross River and Edo.
Ibas
hails from Cross River State. He enlisted into the Nigerian Defence
Academy as a member of the 26th Regular Course in 1979 and was
commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in 1983.
