Assessment Tour: New Chief of Defence Staff, other Service Chiefs storm Borno

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On Sunday the new Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, paid his first operational visit to the Theatre Command in Maiduguri Borno State.

The Chief of Defence Staff was accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Amao and the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Awwal Gambo, appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.

The team was received by Maj.-Gen. Farouq Yahaya, Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Abdul Khalifa, the General Officer Commanding, 7 Division of the Nigerian Army and other principal staff officers of the Military Command and Control Centre at the Headquarters of the Air Task Force.

Abdul Khalifa to newsmen that the CDS would be meeting with the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Chiefs of Training and Operations from the Defence Headquarters, Army, Navy, Air Force and other field commanders,

He said they would be briefed on recent operations in the theatre adding that the service chiefs would also pay courtesy visits to the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Ibn-Garbai and Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State.


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