Their appointments, which was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, followed Buhari’s sacking of the ex- occupants of the offices earlier in the day.
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But Badeh, Army head Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, Adesola Amosu of the air force and the navy’s top officer Usman Jibrin were appointed by ex- president Goodluck Jonathan in January a year ago.
Bombings in the Nigerian cities of Jos and Zaria killed almost 70 people in the past week.
President Muhammadu BuhariNigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday sacked his entire military top brass, his spokesman said, in a widely expected move as he tries to end the Boko Haram insurgency.
Just over an hour later, a man disguised as a woman and wearing a full-face veil blew himself up at a crowded market in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, killing 15 people.
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But the rebels have since allied themselves to the Islamic State Group, handing a potentially more troubling portfolio to Badeh’s successor, Major-General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin.
He announced plans to reinforce Maiduguri with a new command and control centre to better coordinate the counter-insurgency effort, a move analysts said signalled his commitment to intensifying the fight.
Army morale hit an all-time low under Jonathan and it was not until the start of 2015 that the militants were finally pushed out of most areas with the help of foreign mercenaries, troops from neighbouring countries and new equipment.
The footage adopts numerous same style-points as the hundreds of barbaric videos released by ISIS over the past year.
Also on Monday, at least 14 people were killed in Cameroon, two bombs went off at Fotokol, a town on the border with Nigeria’s Borno state.
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The attack in Maiduguri again demonstrated the difficulty of combating Boko Haram’s guerrilla-style tactics, as bomber detonated his explosives in a crowd of passengers undergoing identity and screening checks, civilian vigilantes said.
