{"id":8866,"date":"2025-10-24T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:47:45","slug":"tinubu-overhauls-military-leadership-amid-coup-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2025\/10\/24\/tinubu-overhauls-military-leadership-amid-coup-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Overhauls Military Leadership Amid Coup Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Ojudun<br \/>\nPresident Bola Tinubu has announced a major shake-up in Nigeria\u2019s military leadership, a move aimed at reinforcing national security and reaffirming loyalty within the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The new appointments are General Olufemi Oluyede as Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General W. Shaibu as Chief of Army Staff, Air Vice Marshal S.K. Aneke, Chief of Air Staff, Rear Admiral I. Abbas as Chief of Naval Staff while Major-General E.A.P. Undiendeye retained his position as Chief of Defence Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The changes, revealed by Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, take immediate effect and come amid growing public anxiety over persistent coup rumours and internal military tensions.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Nigeria has been gripped by speculation of unrest within the ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Ojudun President Bola Tinubu has announced a major shake-up in Nigeria\u2019s military leadership, a move aimed at reinforcing national security and reaffirming loyalty within the Armed Forces. The new appointments are General Olufemi Oluyede as Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General W. Shaibu as Chief of Army Staff, Air Vice Marshal S.K. Aneke, Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}