Abayomi olonisakin biography of barack

BY JAMES ALBERT

When I learnt few days ago that in recognition of his successes towards ending terrorism in Nigeria and the Lake Chad basin, the Coalition for Governance and Leadership in Nigeria will present the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Abayomi Olonisakin, with the African Man of the Year award, ‘at last” I thought to myself.

Nigerian chief of army staff

The great strategist and a fine military chief deserves even more, perhaps a medal for his salient role in bringing the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group to their knees.

Before the advent of Gabriel Olonishakin as the Chief of Defence Staff CDS in , Nigerians were all witnesses to the abysmal humanitarian crisis occasioned by the activities of Boko haram and other rebel groups in the country due largely to lack of proper coordination of the counterinsurgency war.

General Olonishakin came in and changed the tide. He demonstrated that the Nigerian armed forces has all it takes to tackle