A week after referring the screening of new service chiefs appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to its Committee on Defence, the Nigeria Senate on Tuesday confirmed their appointments.
The new service chiefs are: Maj. Gen. Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea lrabor as Chief of Defence Staff; Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru (Chief of Army Staff); Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, (Chief of Naval Staff); and Air Vice Marshal Isiaka O. Amao as Chief of Air staff.
The Senate confirmed the new service chiefs at both the Committee of the Whole and at plenary on Tuesday after the consideration and ratification of the report of the Aliyu Wamakko led Committee on Defence
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, asked the new service chiefs to take the war to the bandits and insurgents and dislodge them in their strongholds
