Nigeria’s Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, is dead. Lagbaja died on Tuesday night in Lagos following a period of illness, according to a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. He was aged 56.
Lagbaja’s death comes just hours after President Bola Tinubu promoted Olufemi Oluyede, the man appointed to…
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