President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, received briefing
from Bashir Magashi, the Minister of Defence, on the plane crash that claimed the
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other military officers.
The Minister gave the briefing at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja.
Magashi was accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen.
LEO Irabor, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Isiaka Amao and other senior
officers.
Personal Photographer to the President (Presidency), Mr
Sunday Aghaeze, confirmed this in pictorial reports in Abuja on Friday evening.
Magashi and the service chiefs also used the opportunity to
condole with Buhari over the demise of Attahiru and other military officers,
who were killed in the Airforce plane crash in Kaduna State.
The Nigerian Army had on Friday announced the death of its
Chief, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and ten others in an ill-fated NAF aircraft
near Kaduna International Airport on Friday.
Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, the Director, Army Public
Relations, who did not disclose the names of the other victims, said the plane
was en route Abuja-Kaduna before the crash.
Late Attahiru was born on Aug. 10, 1966, in Doka, Kaduna
State.
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