Nigeria's military chief Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja has kicked the bucket after a "time of sickness" aged 56, President Bola Tinubu has reported.
He passed on Tuesday night in Lagos. The specific subtleties of his disease were not unveiled.
In a proclamation shared on X by official representative Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu communicated his "sincere sympathies" to Gen Lagbaja's loved ones.
"President Tinubu wishes Lt General Lagbaja timeless harmony and praises his critical commitments to the country," the assertion read.
His passing denoted a critical misfortune for the Nigerian Military, where he "assumed vital parts in various inward security tasks", it said.
The head of armed force staff is the most elevated positioning military official in the Nigerian armed force.
Gen Lagbaja was designated to the situation in June 2023, not long after President Tinubu got down to business.
He was frequently away from obligation - once in a while out of the nation getting treatment for an undisclosed disease - and had not been found in broad daylight for quite a while, raising worries.
During his short residency, Nigeria saw an expansion in assaults by warriors from the Islamist Boko Haram gathering and occurrences of seizing, particularly in the north and focal pieces of the country.
This incorporates the mass kidnapping of in excess of 280 youngsters in Kuriga recently.
Under previous President Muhammadu Buhari's invasion on the jihadist uprising, he drove a team close to Maiduguri, the northeastern city most terrible hit by the Boko Haram insurrection.
Despite overpowering security concerns, Gen Lagbja made it a highlight guarantee the military wouldn't mediate in the nation's majority rule government, particularly after a few adjoining nations experienced military overthrows.
"We are specialists of a majority rule government and want to shorten it," he said.
He likewise took part in a Unified Countries peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003.
Prior to enlisting in the military, Gen Lagbaja went to an educators' school in Osogbo. He proceeded to join the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1987, beginning his tactical profession.
He later got a MSc in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College in Pennsylvania.
Gen Lagbaja is made due by his significant other, Mariya, and their two youngsters.