{"id":18915,"date":"2023-07-14T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/?p=18915"},"modified":"2023-07-17T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:19:34","slug":"senate-confirms-the-appointment-of-the-chief-of-defence-staff-cds-and-service-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/senate-confirms-the-appointment-of-the-chief-of-defence-staff-cds-and-service-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms the Appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Service Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Senate at its plenary session of Thursday, 13 July 2023, confirmed the appointment of the following persons as Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Service Chiefs of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Major General Christopher Musa (Kaduna State) \u2013 Chief of Defence Staff<\/li><li>Major General Taoreed. A. Lagbaja (Osun State) \u2013 Chief of Army Staff<\/li><li>AVM Hassan Abubakar (Kano State)\u2013 Chief of Air Staff<\/li><li>Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla (Enugu State) \u2013 Chief of Naval Staff<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the admittance of the CDS and the Service Chiefs into the chambers, the President of Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio (APC: Akwa Ibom) requested that they give a brief submission on their respective qualifications, experiences, leadership abilities, achievements, service records and personal background after which proceedings were suspended temporarily to commence the screening exercise in a closed-door session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although details from the screening exercise remains confidential, the President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio noted that the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and the Service Chiefs responded to salient issues raised by lawmakers which bordered on national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate at its plenary session of Thursday, 13 July 2023, confirmed the appointment of the following persons as Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Service Chiefs of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria: Major General Christopher Musa (Kaduna State) \u2013 Chief of Defence Staff Major General Taoreed. A. Lagbaja (Osun State) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinubu-and-security-chiefs-300x200.jpeg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 14, 2023","modified":"Updated on July 17, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 14, 2023 11:19 am","modified":"Updated on July 17, 2023 11:19 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tinubu-and-security-chiefs","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18919,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions\/18919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}