Nigeria’s ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Ogohi, is dead
The DEFENDER reports that one time Chief of Defence Staff in Nigeria, Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi, has died after a brief illness.
He died at 75. Family sources said he had been critically ill due to old-age related sickness for weeks before he died in his Abuja home in the early hours of Sunday June 30, 2024.
“Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi passed on to glory a few minutes ago, early Sunday morning,” a family source said.
The late Admiral was Chief of Defence Staff between 1999 and 2003.
He was the first Naval officer to reach four star rank in the Nigerian military, including being the first officer from the Nigerian Navy to be Chief of Defence Staff.
The late chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces hailed from Okura, Lafia in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State.
According to our reporter, Admiral Ogohi was buried same Sunday in accordance with Islamic rites.
