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In August 2008, he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff. Prior to his appointment as Chief of the Air Staff, Dike was Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Command.

Appointed Commander of the Presidential Air Fleet in 1997 by military dictator General Sani Abacha, he was appointed Chief of Air Staff by General Olusegun Obasanjo's civilian government in 2006.

ACM Paul Dike held the following office prior to becoming Chief of Defence Staffs
-1). Staff Officer I, Operations Headquarters, Tactical Air Command
-2). Instructor Pilot, Operational Conversion Unit, MiG-21 fighter jets
-3). Chief Flying Instructor, 303 Flying Training School, FTS.

-4). Commander, ECOMOG Air Detachment, Freetown, Sierra Leone
-5). Directing Staff, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna.
-6). Commander, National Air Defence Corps.

-7). Deputy Director, Plans, Nigerian Air Force Headquarters.
Director of Operations, Nigerian Air Force Headquarters.
-8 ). Commander, Nigerian Air Force Station, Yola, Adamawa State.
-9).Airport Commandant, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

-10). Appointed Commander, the Nigerian Presidential Air Fleet, PAF by the late General Sani Abacha.
-11). Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Training Command, Kaduna.
-12). Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Makurdi, Benue State.

-13). Appointed the 15th Chief of Air Staff (CAS) on 1 June 2006 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
-14). Appointed the Chief of Defence Staff, Defence Headquarters, Abuja on 20 August 2008 by President Umaru Musa Yar'adua.
-15). On 8 September 2010, thereby becoming the First Nigerian Airforce officer to attain the Rank of Air Chief Marshal

Source: Historyrecords

Racoon:
First Nigerian Airforce Officer to attain 4-Star Rank of Air Chief Marshal.


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Racoon:
Another Air force officer to become the CDS was Alex Badeh from Adamawa State. Congratulations too sir.

Racoon:
Another Air force officer to become the CDS was Alex Badeh from Adamawa State. Congratulations too sir.

Racoon:
Another Air force officer to become the CDS was Alex Badeh from Adamawa State. Congratulations too sir.

Racoon:
Trail blazers are nature and divine ordained. They have greatness inherent in their blood. Congratulations sir. Congratulations to the Igbo race.

Dafungames:
B

Lateef73:
G

Mervingreat:
Another nonsense. Use your brain at least for once.

BafanaBafana:
I remember one guy I knew, Igbo boy, fresh from the south east to the university in Makurdi. In the usual cry of marginalization told me Igbo men in the military are not allowed to rise beyond the rank of Colonel. I pulled out my AFSS magazine and showed him a picture of Paul Dike as CDS. He kept quiet.