Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru is dead. He died in an air crash while on an official trip to Kaduna State on Friday.
Attahiru was appointed in January after President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the former service chiefs..
Although the Nigerian Army is yet to make any official statement on Attahiru’s death, Nigerian Air Force confirmed one of its aircraft crashed on Friday near Kaduna International Airport.
“The immediate cause of the crash is still being ascertained,” Air Force spokesman Edward Gabkwet said