PICTORIAL: US Army War College Inducts Late Nigeria’s COAS Lt-Gen Lagbaja Into International Hall Of Fame

The United States Army War College (USAWC) has posthumously conferred 1 of its highest planetary honours connected the immediate-past Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), precocious Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja.

LEADERSHIP reports that Lagbaja was 23rd Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Army.

The College connected Monday, October 13, 2023, inducted the precocious Army Chief into its prestigious International Hall of Fame (IHOF) during the opening ceremonial of the ongoing Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Convention astatine the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre, Washington D.C., United States of America.

A connection by the Director, Army Public Relations, Lt-Col Appolonia Anele, said the Commandant of the USAWC, Major General Trevor J. Bredenkamp, successful a solemn but yet colourful ceremony, presented the posthumous honour successful acknowledgment of the precocious General Lagbaja’s sterling leadership, visionary work and exceptional contributions to the advancement of subject professionalism and planetary bid and security.

The designation underscored his outstanding achievements arsenic an alumnus of the instauration who roseate meritoriously to the zenith of his subject vocation arsenic Nigeria’s 23rd Chief of Army Staff.

According to the statement, the precocious Lieutenant General Lagbaja was 1 of the six eminent inductees honoured astatine this year’s event.

His induction represented a historical milestone arsenic helium became the first-ever Nigerian Army serviceman to beryllium inducted successful the USAWC International Hall of Fame successful the institution’s illustrious 124-year history, a testament to his enduring bequest of excellence and work to humanity.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, was represented astatine the ceremonial by Major General Adeleke Ayannuga, who received the honour alongside Mrs Maria Abiodun Lagbaja connected behalf of the precocious COAS.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, expressed profound pridefulness successful this singular honour bestowed upon 1 of the Nigerian Army’s astir illustrious and visionary leaders. He affirmed that the designation not lone immortalises the precocious Lieutenant General Lagbaja’s distinguished work but besides reinforces the Nigerian Army’s committedness to the cosmopolitan ideals of professionalism, subject and dedication to planetary bid and security.

Among the dignitaries successful attendance were the Director General, Nigerian Army Heritage and Future Centre, Major General G.O. Adesina; Director General, Defence Headquarters Joint Doctrine and Warfare Centre, Major General G.T.O. Ajetunmobi, Mrs Deborah Aboderin of the Office of Security Cooperation, U.S. Embassy, Abuja.

Also contiguous were the Nigerian Defence Attaché to the United States, Army officers undergoing higher nonrecreational subject acquisition astatine the National Defense University, Washington D.C, the United States Army War College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, alongside different elder Nigerian Army officers participating successful the AUSA 2025 Annual Convention.

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