{"id":77407,"date":"2025-10-24T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77407"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:36:05","slug":"tinubu-appoints-general-oluyede-as-new-chief-of-defence-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/24\/tinubu-appoints-general-oluyede-as-new-chief-of-defence-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Appoints General Oluyede as New Chief of Defence Staff  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has appointed General Olufemi Oluyede as the new Chief of Defence Staff, replacing General Christopher Musa, in a major shake-up of Nigeria\u2019s military leadership aimed at strengthening the nation\u2019s security architecture.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, the President also approved the appointment of Major-General W. Shaibu as Chief of Army Staff, Air Vice Marshal S.K. Aneke as Chief of Air Staff, and Rear Admiral I. Abbas as Chief of Naval Staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief of Defence Intelligence, Major-General E.A.P. Undiendeye, retains his position.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu expressed appreciation to the outgoing Service Chiefs, including General Musa, for their patriotic service and dedicated leadership, urging the new appointees to justify the confidence reposed in them by promoting professionalism, vigilance, and unity within the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The appointments take immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado\u00a0 President Bola Tinubu has appointed General Olufemi Oluyede as the new Chief of Defence Staff, replacing General Christopher Musa, in a major shake-up of Nigeria\u2019s military leadership aimed at strengthening the nation\u2019s security architecture. According to a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77409,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77407\/revisions\/77409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}