Sentences with phrase «by army chief»

He said participants of the National Defence College's strategic leadership course would draw valuable lessons from the experience shared by the army chief.

It continued that the cover on the alleged misappropriation of the vehicle by the army chief was blown by Adeti's successor, Brig M Whajah, GOC, Southern Command.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

«The expectation is that local and national markets will be served by the energy production facilitated by this pipeline,» Ricky Boyett, public affairs chief for the Army Corps» New Orleans District, told DeSmog via email.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

A recent document approved in December, 1989 by the Army's chief of staff, General Carl Vuono, entitled «Military Operations in Low - Intensity Conflict,» describes the army's new aggressive plArmy's chief of staff, General Carl Vuono, entitled «Military Operations in Low - Intensity Conflict,» describes the army's new aggressive plarmy's new aggressive plans.

Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks.

A rag - tag group of Apache warriors, led by an elderly man in his late seventies, took on the U.S. Army's Ninth Cavalry in revenge for the death of the great Apache war chief Victorio.

READ ALSO: Policeman killed over mistaken identity Spokesperson for the Ghana Armed Forces, Col. Aggrey Quarshie said «a high - powered fact - finding team led by the Chief of Army Staff is proceeding to the scene of the incident to ascertain the facts of the case.»

Militarily Ukraine is also in a very weak position, with a conscript army that could itself fragment into Ukrainian and Russian components if pushed into military action, and a command echelon that seems to be prepared (given the sacking of the army chiefs by both Yanukovych and the new acting president Turchynov) to prefer caution and neutrality rather than be an instrument for splitting the country any further than it already is.

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwaan ally of the army chief and a veteran of the country's struggle for independence, was sacked on November 8 by Mugabe for showing «traits of disloyalty».

It is unprecedented in the history of the Nigerian Army and great boost to the strength of the Officer Corps of the Nigerian Army by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General TY Buratai.

Buhari is to be accompanied by the Minister of Defense, Alhaji Mansur Ali and Service Chiefs, Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olanisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Sadique and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Obet Ebas.

He said a high powered military team led by the chief of army staff has been dispatched to the area to gather facts on what happened.

The White House is reportedly mulling replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster, an Army general — a move that is being orchestrated by White House chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis.

The move to oust McMaster, an Army general, is being orchestrated by White House chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, MSNBC reported.

The tribal leaders of Benue have slammed the recent call by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai for a review of the state's...

He added that it is in line with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai's Barracks Investment Initiative Program (BIIP) to take care of the welfare of the troops and in way boost the morale of troops fighting against insurgency in the North East Nigeria by empowering their families and wards.

The panel set up by Chief of Army Staff, Lt.General Tukur Buratai, to investigate alleged military connivance with herdsmen in Taraba State submitted its report yesterday...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has revealed how the $ 1billion approved by President Muhammadu Buhari for the purchase of military equipment will...

Mnangagwa, 75, was sacked by the president on November 6 in a move that pushed infuriated army chiefs to intervene, triggering a series of events which led to Mugabe's ouster.

But a statement from the Ministry of Defence on Monday, signed by Col. Tukur Gusau, the Public Relations Officer to the Minister, Mansur Dan - Ali, said the CDS, Olonisakin, the army chief, Buratai, the air chief, Abubakar, and the naval chief, Ete - Ibas, would continue in office.

Army veteran, local community activist and our own editor - in - chief here at the Chronicle Sal Conforto was inducted by Senator Jeff Klein into the New York State Veteran's Hall of Fame.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists»...

Notwithstanding the inroad made against Boko Haram insurgents by men of the Nigerian military, Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, yesterday revealed that...

The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna on Thursday adjourned a N2bn suit filed against the Nigerian Army, Chief of Army Staff and three others by the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El - Zakzaky over alleged abuse of his human right, destruction of his house in Zaria and the murder of his three children.

But when counsel to the Nigerian Army and the Chief of Army staff Staff was invited by the presiding judge to identify and argue the motion of objection earlier filed, Barrister Hussein Oyebanji told the judge that he was not conversant with the case.

A statement signed by the party's Director of Administration, Yahaya Shinko, «urged the Chief of Army Staff to relieve the GOC 1 Division for meddling into partisan politics.

Following the fall of Sambisa Forest and the defeat of Boko Haram by the Nigerian Military, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has been awarded the African Leadership Magazine Award in recognition of the strategic and commanding roles he played in achieving the feat.

Representing the Chief of Army Staff at the first annual conference of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, Major General Peter Dauke said that Borno had about 400,000 houses damaged by Boko Haram Link: https://goo.gl/Mj9Sg9)

Michael Anderson of the New York State Department of Transportation, overall project director for the new bridge, gave a presentation followed by presentations from David Capobianco, chief engineer of the New York State Thruway Authority, and Richard Tomer of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

The Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, Lieutenant General TY Buratai, on Wednesday 20th September 2017, launched 3 books on Critical Thinking written by Colonel Charles Dalo Nengite, as part of efforts to enhance the capacity of Nigerian Army's personnel in creativity and innovation in the application of Critical Thinking.

The Chief of Army Staff further stated that it is now a fact that the adversaries being engaged by most militaries are becoming wiser and more unpredictable.

The event was well attended by eminent Nigerians including former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon; the National Security Adviser, Babagana Moguno; the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai and the Nigerian Army were conferred with awards of patriotism and excellence by THE NIGERIAN News Portal at The Dorchester, in the City of Westminster, London on Friday 25th August, 2017.

The awards which were presented by John Milton, renowned American Journalist with specialty in photojournalism and Patrick Smith, Editor in Chief, African Confidential Magazine were received by Major General Chris Jemitola, Chief of Policy and Plans (Army), on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai and the Nigerian Army.

While unveiling the 3 books; «Curriculum for Basic Critical Thinking and Judgement», «Curriculum for Self - Awareness in Critical Thinking and Judgement» and «Curriculum for Advanced Critical Thinking and Judgement», as well as «Curriculum for Self - Awareness in Critical Thinking and Judgement Workbook», Lieutenant General TY Buratai, who was represented by Major General Chris Jemitola, Chief of Policy and Plans (Army) at the occasion, said top military and management experts have rated Critical Thinking as the most important skill set for the complex strategic environment of the 21st century.

Police spokesman, Don Awunah, told PREMIUM TIMES the raid and the arrests were carried out following complaints filed by lawyers for the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai.

By Jimitota Onoyume PORTHARCOURT — CHIEF of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has commended his men for crushing terrorism in the...

The army chief said that ground troops supported by Nigerian Air Force fighter jets would continue to hit the forest until the insurgents were eventually cleared.

Public scepticism has been re-enforced by the blockbuster accusation by General T.Y Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister that the Nigerian Military under Buhari are «colluding» with «armed bandits» (read Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen) to carry out ethnic cleansing across communities in central Nigeria!

This was confirmed by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt - Gen Yusuf Bruntai, on Thursday while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the Security Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.

The value of purchases purported to have been made by the general were $ 419,000.00 and at least N42.2 million and some of the payments for the second purchase were made by an army finance professional days after Buratai became army chief!

In a release signed by Steven Chilaka, its «National Secretary» on Sunday, they wanted the Chief of Army Staff to be included among those indicted in the ongoing probe of abuse of funds meant for the procurement of arms simply because he was the Director of Procurement at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ).

In attendance w ere representative of the Chief of Training and Operations Army Headquarters, Brigadier General Ndalolo, Defence Headquarters Observer Team led by Commodore Shammah, Security Adviser to Abia State Governor, Captain (rtd) Idonsi Awa and the Commanders of 14 and 34 Brigades,

To be sure, Ayokunle's indictment of the federal government at a press conference held Friday, April 21, 2017 in Abuja ahead of the 104th annual session of the Nigerian Baptist Convention came on the heels of the launch of Harbin Kunama II (Scorpion Sting) at a forest between Kagoro and Kafanchan, southern part of Kaduna State by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai.

A statement issued last night and signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman also noted that Operation Lafiya Dole is still under the operational command of the Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai while the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin exercises supervisory role over the Army and Airforce Components.

The Nigerian Army views this statement made by the former Chief of Army Staff as most unfortunate at this critical time that the military has embarked upon demilitarisation of the North Central Region of the Country.