{"id":33655,"date":"2021-05-27T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33655"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:07:20","slug":"general-farouk-yahaya-is-new-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33655","title":{"rendered":"General Farouk Yahaya is new Army Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defence Headquarters  says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment  of Major-General Farouk Yajaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement by Defence spokesman, Brigadier-general Onyema Nwachukwu, put paid to speculations of a successor to Late Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a plane crash with six officers and four other men of the Armed Forces ast Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement reads in full: &#8220;The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;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. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Please disseminate this information to the general public through your news medium. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Thank you for your cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Headquarters says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major-General Farouk Yajaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. A statement by Defence spokesman, Brigadier-general Onyema Nwachukwu, put paid to speculations of a successor to Late Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a plane crash with six officers and four other men of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,31,3435],"class_list":["post-33655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-army","tag-buhari","tag-yahaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}