The quartet of service chiefs – General Abayomi Olonisakin (Chief of Defence Staff) Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai (Army) Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar – had run a relentless campaign to convince President Buhari that they should stay in position to ensure continuity at a time of national crisis...

The service chiefs led by Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai argued for a tough response warning that the movement could easily grow into a campaign for radical political change...

Chief of Army Staff General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has said nothing since the crisis escalated and army got involved...

Media reports suggest more than a dozen senior officers including generals and colonels were withdrawn from the Office of the National Security Advisor in February by Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai leaving Monguno isolated...

Since he assumed office in 2015 the retired general President Muhammadu Buhari has taken a hands-off approach to the conflict deferring to his trusted army chief Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai...

' Lieutenant-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai – Chief of Army Staff since July 2015...

Calls are growing for the sacking of the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai and Defence Minister Mansur Dan Ali (AC Vol 57 No 19 No oil no money no deal)...

After Amnesty International reported that over 3 500 people had been killed in the herder-farmer clashes most of them this year there were fresh calls for the army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai to stand down...

Chief of Army Staff General Tukur Buratai led a delegation to on 23-24 August for talks at the Ministry of Defence in London on regional strategy training programmes and geopolitics...