Etim Ekpimah
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Ibrahim Attahiru is dead.
Attahiru died in a plane crash while leaving the Kaduna International Airport.
The aeroplane was said to have crashed in the bush near the airport with 11 other people on board around 6:00 pm amidst downpours.
All the eight people on board the aircraft are feared dead, though there is no word yet on the casually figure.
Details later.