BREAKING NEWS: Former Chief of Defence Staff is Dead, Details Emerge.

Started by bosmftha, 24-12-2024

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The former CDS Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi (rtd), the former chief of defence staff in the Fourth Republic, is dead. Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, the director of defence information, announced this in a terse statement on Sunday, June 30.
Former chief of defence staff dies Admiral Ogohi Source: The former CDS died in the early hours of Sunday in Abuja.  Who is Ogohi? Admiral Ogohi is from Okura, Lafia, in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State and served as the chief of defence staff from 1999 to 2003 under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The statement tersely read: "With deep sorrow, I announced the death of Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi (rtd), a former Chief of Defence Staff (1999-2003).
 He passed on in Abuja in the early hours of today." According to a family source, the late chief of defence staff has been suffering from old age sickness before his death at his house in Abuja on Sunday. The late Ogohi was the first naval officer to be crowned four stars in the Nigerian military and the chief of defence staff from the navy..