By our reporter| Major Gen Farouk Yahaya on Friday assumed duty as the chief of army staff.
Yahaya was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, to replace Ibrahim Attahiru who died in an air crash alongside 10 other officers last Friday.
NAN reports that Yahaya earlier on Friday visited Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff, before proceeding to the army headquarters.
He was received at the headquarters by Ben Ahanotu, chief of policy and plan, who also briefed him before he proceeded to assume office as the new chief of army staff.
The new army chief asked for a minute silence in honour of the late Attahiru and other officers who died in the air crash, after which he asked journalists to leave the hall for a closed-door meeting with officers.
The new COAS was, until his appointment, the theatre commander of the counter-terrorism military outfit in the north-east, which is code-named operation, Hadin Kai.
He was the former general officer commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian army.
According to his profile, the army chief, who is from Sokoto state, is aged 55 and is of the 37 regular course of the Nigerian army.
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