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He said, “I pledge to lead an army that will be motivated by professionalism and discipline.”<\/p>\n

The Boko Haram insurgency was at its height when Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya took office in 2021, but he said he is leaving it better than he met it in his speech at the event.<\/p>\n

On May 27, 2021, after the tragic passing of Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an aeroplane crash on May 21 along with 10 other officers and soldiers from the army, Yahaya was named army chief by former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n

He served as the theatre commander of Operation Hadin Kai, the Northeast counterinsurgency operation, prior to being named army chief.<\/p>\n

He urged the army to maintain its recent successes in fending off various security threats, such as terrorists, bandits, and thieves of crude oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, the new chief of army staff, has stated that he is prepared to lead an army that will be motivated by professionalism and discipline. Lagbaja said this while addressing a sizable group of senior military officers and heads of various departments within the army on Friday during the handover ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-security-defence"],"yoast_head":"\n