Wing Commander Emmanuel Ukaegbu is a former officer in the Nigerian Air Force who was military Administrator of Anambra State in Nigeria from 6 August 1998 to 29 May 1999.
Paul DikeMSS DSS fwc is a retired air chief marshal of the Nigerian Air Force,who was the Chief of the Air Staff from 2006 to 2008. In August 2008,he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff. Prior to his appointment as Chief of the Air Staff,Dike was Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Command. Appointed Commander of the Presidential Air Fleet in 1997 by military dictator General Sani Abacha,he was appointed Chief of Air Staff by General Olusegun Obasanjo's civilian government in 2006.
Abdulsalami Abubakar is a retired Nigerian army general who served as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1998 to 1999. He was also Chief of Defence Staff from 1997 to 1998. He succeeded General Sani Abacha upon the latter's death.
Femi John Femi is the first qualified helicopter pilot to be appointed as the Chief of Air Staff of the Nigerian Air Force.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is a military university based in Kaduna,Nigeria,that trains officer cadets for commissioning into one of the three services of the Nigerian Armed Forces:the Army,the Navy,and the Air Force. The duration of training at the Nigerian Defence Academy is five years.
The 1966 Nigerian Counter-coup was the second of many military coups in Nigeria. It was masterminded by Lt. Colonel Murtala Muhammed and many other northern military officers. The coup began as a mutiny at roughly midnight of 28 July 1966 and was a reaction to the killings of Northern politicians and officers by some soldiers on 15 January 1966. The coup resulted in the murder of Nigeria's first military Head of State General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi and Lt Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi in Ibadan by disgruntled northern non-commissioned officers (NCOs). Upon the termination of Ironsi's government,Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon was appointed Head of State by the coup conspirators.
The Air and Space Warfare Centre (ASWC) is a Royal Air Force research and testing organisation based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere,including at RAF High Wycombe,RAF Brize Norton,MoD Boscombe Down,and RAF Odiham.
Salaudeen Adebola Latinwo was a group captain in the Nigerian Air Force and a military governor of Kwara State,Nigeria,under Muhammadu Buhari's military government.
Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa was an air marshal in the Nigerian Air Force. He previously served as Military administrator of Kaduna State and Chief of Air Staff for the Nigerian Air Force. He died on 16 March 2000.
Emmanuel E Ikwue was Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff from 1969 to 1975. Brigadier Ikwue was the fifth Commander of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF),the third indigenous to hold the post. Appointed in December 1969,he was the first to hold the office designated as the Chief of Air Staff,Nigerian Air Force.
John Nmadu Yisa-Doko,GCON,CFR was the first Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff from 1975 to 1980 who joined as a NAF cadet.
Alex Sabundu BadehMSS DSS was an officer of the Nigerian Air Force who served as the 18th Chief of Air Staff and the 15th Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria. He died from gunshot injuries sustained after his vehicle was attacked by unknown gunmen along Abuja-Keffi road on Tuesday,18 December 2018.
Sadique Baba Abubakarpsc (+) DFS GSS fwc fdc(+) MSc is a retired air marshal in the Nigerian Air Force and former Chief of the Air Staff of Nigeria.
Air Marshal Anil Khosla,PVSM,AVSM,VM,ADC is a retired Indian air force officer who served as 42nd Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) of the Indian Air Force. He assumed the office on 1 October 2018 and handed over on 30 April 2019.
Ishaya Rizi Bamaiyi,is a retired Nigerian Army lieutenant general who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1996 to 1999 during the military regime of Generals Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar. His older brother was Major General Musa Bamaiyi,former Head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Abubakar Sadiq Liman is a military officer in the Nigerian Air force. In November 2019,he was appointed commandant of Armed Forces Command and Staff College,Jaji to March 2021. He is presently appointed as the Deputy chief of Defence Intelligence Agency (Nigeria) (DIA).
Musa Daggash,OFR was a Nigerian civil servant,who served as Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Mines and Power,then the Ministry of Defence and finally the Ministry of Transport. Daggash was part of the cohort of civil servants referred to as Super Permanent Secretaries. From 15 January 1966 to 3 June 1967,Nigeria had no Ministers,that was a period of over fifteen months. The two military regimes of Major General Aguiyi Ironsi and General Yakubu Gowon made permanent secretaries members of their Federal Executive Councils. These individuals were later referred to as "Super Permanent Secretaries".
Isiaka Oladayo Amaopsc DFS GSS RBS GSM QFI fndu MSc MMSc is a retired Nigerian air marshal and a former Chief of the Air Staff of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) appointed on 26 January 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari.
General is the highest rank achievable by serving officers of the Nigerian Army. It ranks above lieutenant-general and is subordinate to the rank of field marshal,which is only awarded as an honorary rank to the incumbent president of Nigeria in his capacity as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The rank of general is a four-star rank. It is equivalent to a full admiral in the Nigerian Navy or an air chief marshal in the Nigerian Air Force.
Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar is a Nigerian air marshal who currently serves as the Chief of the Air Staff of Nigeria,appointed by President Bola Tinubu on 19 June 2023,succeeding Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao.
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