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Ex-CDS Badeh to get hero’s burial

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Former Chief of Defence Staff, late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, will  be buried with full military honours , the Defence Headquarters has said.
Although Badeh began his military career as an Air Force officer, all the arms of the Nigerian military – Army, Navy and Air Force – will be involved in giving him the full compliments of respect owing to his former position as Chief of Defence Staff who had authority over the three services.
In a press release issued by the Acting Director Defence Information, Brigadier General John Agim, on Friday, the military’s burial activities lined-up for the interment of the former Chief of Defence Staff, late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh will begin on Sunday (tomorrow)  and end on Wednesday.
According to Agim,  a service of songs will hold  at the Nigerian Air Force Base Protestant Church, Bill Clinton Drive, Abuja at 5 pm on Sunday.
At 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning, a special church service will  take place at the same church.
The body of the late CDS is to be moved to the National Military Cemetery in Karamajiji,  Abuja, where the nation’s military heroes are buried.
Born on November 7, 1957, Alex Badeh, a four star flag officer of the Nigerian Air force who served as the 18th Chief of Air Staff and the 15th Chief of Defence Staff of the Nigerian armed forces was shot dead on Tuesday, 18 December 2018.

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