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We started using G Class/G Wagen/Puch as review vehicles during the Shagari era. We previously used Land Rovers.

An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military or government officer, a member of a royal family, or a head of state. 

Charles James Esquire's Military Dictionary (1810) pp 29–30 stated that an aide-de-camp is an officer appointed to attend a general officer and is seldom under the grade of captain: “The King may appoint for himself as many as he pleases, which appointment gives the rank of colonel in the army. Generals being field marshals, have four,lieutenant generals two, major generals one”.

Prince Charles is a personal aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II.

Equerries are equivalents to aides-de-camp in the Royal Household, in which aides-de-camp are restricted to senior officers with a primarily honorific role. JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi served as Equerry to Queen Elizabeth when she visited Nigeria in 1956.

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Queen Elizabeth in Abuja in 2003. One of her ADCs is behind her. Source http://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/queen-elizabeth-ii-of-england-and-nigerian-president-news-photo/2779531

Within the United States Army, aides-de-camp are specifically appointed to general-grade officers (NATO Code OF-6 through OF-10), the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and President of the United States

The military aides to the President number five (one from each of the uniformed services), and they are majors and lieutenant-colonels. One of their major roles is to hold the Presidential emergency satchel (nuclear football). There are, in addition to these five permanent aides-de-camp, some 40-45 military social aides, who are more junior (lieutenant to major) and are temporary officers whose appointment is, as their titles suggest, for social purposes (primarily as hosts at the White House). They are part-time, required for perhaps 2-4 afternoons a month.


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President Clinton and President Obasanjo and their ADCs in Abuja in 1999.


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US President, Jimmy Carter, inspecting the guards at Dodan Barracks. Behind (in white) is the President's ADC.



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide-de-camp

The President and Commander in Chief (C in C) of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is one of few civilians in Nigeria that is entitled to a military ADC (the Minister of Defence is also entitled to a military ADC). An ADC is a military assistant to a senior military officer. The duties of the President's ADC include managing the President's security (in conjunction with the Chief Security Officer) and acting as liaison between the President and the Brigade of Guards. The C in C's ADC is usually a colonel, but Murtala Muhammed decided to retain the ADC he had before becoming the C in C (this ADC, Akintunde Akinsehinwa, was a lieutenant). The ADCs of the Commander in Chief since the return to civilian rule in 1999 are: -

1) Colonel Solomon Giwa-Amu:
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Solomon Giwa-Amu from Edo State was President Obasanjo's ADC from 1999-2003. He studied law at the University of Benin and the Nigerian Law School. He also had a masters degree in strategic operations from the US Army War College.

Colonel Giwa-Amu had previously served as ADC to General Ike Nwachukwu, Military Assistant to the Chief of Logistics of the Nigerian Army and Military Assistant to the Chief of Operations of the Nigerian Army.

He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General after serving as ADC to President Obasanjo and he also served as Defence Attache to the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations, Commander of the 81 Division Military Police and Director of Defence Information. He was also very active in many charitable organisations.

Brigadier General Giwa-Amu died in a car crash in February 2008.

2) Colonel Chris Jemitola: -
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Colonel Chris Jemitola served as ADC to President Obasanjo from 2003-2007.

After serving as ADC to the President, he served as Director of Defence Information and later as Defence Attache in the Nigerian Embassy in Brazil. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 2014.

3) Colonel Mustapha Dennis Onoyiveta:

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Colonel Mustapha Onoyiveta from Delta State served as ADC to President Yar'Adua from 2007-2010. He played a controversial role while protecting the President during his illness, especially when the President suddenly returned to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia.

He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and posted to the Army Headquarters as head of the Army Operations Monitoring Team. He later served as Chief of Staff to the Chief of Army Staff (Generals Ihejirika and Minimah).


4) Colonel Ojogbane Adegbe
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Colonel Adegbe is the ADC to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Colonel Ojogbane Adegbe graduated from the Nigerian Defence Academy with a BSc in Mathematics. He also has a masters degree in Intelligence and International Security from Kings College, London. He has served in the 26th Motorized Battalion, Ecomog in Sierra Leone, the Office of the Defence Adviser at the Nigerian High Commission in London, the Intelligence Production Centre of the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army Intelligence Corps and the 81 Division Intelligence Command, Lagos.

Colonel Adegbe has served as President Jonathan's ADC since 2010.


I wonder who Buhari's ADC will be.

That's just the review vehicle. I hope they bring back the 600 (W100) for the ceremony.

Naval helicopters. The second flag is the naval ensign (see below). June 1st is Navy Day.

MTN, Megalectrics (Beat FM, Classic FM, Naija FM), Uber Taxi and Arik Air are all affected.

The article that led to the lawsuit.

http://omojuwa.com/2014/05/president-jonathans-aide-doyin-okupes-associate-linked-with-murder-adeyanju-deji-buk-admission-year-2000/

May his soul rest in peace. He was the first headmaster of the New Village Headmaster era (Ted Mukoro was before him in the original Village Headmaster series and Justus Esiri took over from him in the New Village Headmaster series).

Then I used to wake up to his Shoppers Guide every Saturday morning on NTA2 Channel 5. Sweet memories.