BREAKING: President Buhari Appoints New Chief of Army Staff

 

President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.

This was disclosed in a brief statement released by the Defence Headquarters and sighted  on Thursday afternoon, May 27.

President Buhari has appointed Major General Farouq Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. Photo credits: @DefenceInfoNG, @NGRPresident

Prior to his appointment, Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army.

Yahaya's appointment as the Army chief was necessitated by the demise of the occupant of the office, Ibrahim Attahiru.

The sad incident left many Nigerians in shock as the late COAS had only spent a few months in office.Attahiru and 10 other officers died in a plane crash on Friday, May 21.

Major General Yahaya's appointment as the new Army chief has been drawing reactions from Nigerians on social media. 

Sultan in Danger over Recovered Loot Remark? Shehu Sani Expresses Fears

 

The question about the whereabouts of recovered loots directed to the federal government by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III, has been described as pebbles thrown at the leadership

Shehu Sani, a former senator from Kaduna Central, on Wednesday, May 26, expressed fears that this might turn against the Islamic leader.

It is the hope of Shehu Sani that the Sultan will not be attacked for his question

In his tweet on Wednesday, although Sani did not mention actual names, he implied that presidential media aides might come for the Sultan as in the case of Father Mbaka of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN) and Bishop Mattew Kukah.

"The Sultan has thrown a Pebble into the Palace; hope the guards would not chase him hard with machetes, like Mbaka and Kukah."

Earlier, Sa’ad Abubakar III on Tuesday, May 25 urged the federal government to explain to Nigerians how much loots it had recovered and what they were being used for.Sani said:

He spoke in Sokoto at the zonal dialogue with stakeholders on the National Ethics and Integrity Policy, for the northwest zone.

The Sultan, represented by the Wazirin Sokoto, Professor Sambo Wali Junaidu, said keeping mute on the recovered loots would spell doom for the fight against corruption in the country.

The cleric was quoted to have said:

“The government owes Nigerians an explanation, we want to know how much billions of naira was recovered from our past leaders. Where the monies are and what are they doing with them?

He said the founders of the Sokoto Caliphate had written many books on corruption and how it could be addressed using Islamic ways.“This explanation is necessary considering the state of our education and other infrastructure like roads which need serious government attention.”

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari reacted to the historic appointment of Professor lbrahim Abubakar

A Nigerian professor Ibrahim Abubakar has bagged a new role as the Dean of Faculty of Population Health Sciences of the University College London, a statement from the university confirms.

The well-read academic with an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will take over from Professor Graham Hart who has held the position since August 2011.

Professor Ibrahim becomes the second Dean of the faculty Photo Credit: @ProfIAbubakar, @ToyinSaraki

A statement from the university confirming the appointment which will take effect from August 2021 reads in part:

“He successfully leading the faculty to its position today as a leading global institution for education and research in public health and clinical medicine, consistently ranked in the world’s top ten. Professor Hart will continue to co-direct UCL Health of the Public.“We are delighted to announce that Ibrahim Abubakar, a world-leading scholar in the field of infectious disease epidemiology, will take up the post of Dean of the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences from 1 August 2021.

“He has published widely, including over 300 research papers, policy reports, book chapters and textbooks. He has a strong commitment to equality and diversity, supporting excellence in education and research and tackling inequalities and social exclusion.”

President Buhari has reacted to the appointment.

Speaking through his media aide Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari hailed Ibrahim for his unalloyed support to public health institutions that has seen significant progress in the area and congratulated him on his appointment.

Meanwhile, two Nigerian-Americans were elected into the US National Academy of Engineering.Ibrahim holds a bachelor's degree in medicine from Ahmadu Bello University. He was elected Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020 amongst other impeccable achievements recorded in his career

Both Soboyejo and Olukotun were among the 104 new members and 24 international members elected to the NAE in March 2021. Olukotun is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

He earned his place at the academy following his contributions to on-chip multiprocessor architectures and advancement to commercial realization.