The Nigerian Army
Council on Friday approved the promotion of 227 senior officers from various
ranks to their next ranks.
In the promotion
list released by the Army Council, 21 Brigadier Generals were promoted to Major
Generals, 93 Colonels to Brigadier Generals and 113 Lieutenant Colonels to
Colonels.
A statement by the
Spokesman of the Army Colonel, Sani Usman, who was also promoted to the rank of
Brigadier General, revealed that the promotion in the Nigerian Army is an
annual exercise by the Service to qualified personnel who have distinguished
themselves over stipulated period of time.
The statement read:
“Those promoted include Brig.- Gen. CM Abraham, Acting General Officer
Commanding (GOC) 2 Division; Brig.- Gen. Obono, Acting Corps Commander,
Nigerian Army Artillery Corps; Brig.-Gen. PJ Dauke, Acting GOC 3 Division and
Brig.-Gen. A A Nani, Acting GOC 8 Task Force Division, as well as Brig.-Gen. JB
Olawunmi, Acting Coordinator, Nigerian Army Aviation Corps.
Other Brigadier
Generals are CC Okwonkwo, Commander 48 Task Force Division Engineers; MSA Aliyu
and AM Jalingo, who were promoted to the
rank of Major Generals, among others.
“Among the Colonels
promoted as Brigadier Generals are IY Dogara, EO Aikhomu, Aminu Bande, IFD
Briggs, PA Alamba, UU Bassey, UT Musa,
AS Ndalolo, AI Taiwo, Y Hassan, IOO Olotta and UT Utaru.
Others include the
Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. SK Usman, Acting Director of
Chaplain Service (Roman Catholic) Col. CC Iroegbu, Acting Director of Chaplain
Service (Protestant), Col. DD Danfulani, and Acting Director Islamic Affairs,
Col. SG Mustapha.
“Earlier in the year, the Nigerian Army
carried out several promotion exercises for other categories of its personnel.
“These include the
Junior Non-Commission Officers (JNCOs), Senior Non-Commission Officers and
Warrant Officers category, as well as Junior officers from the rank of Second
Lt. to Lieutenants to Captains and from Captains to Majors.”
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