A former Director Army Public Relations and pioneer Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Fredrick Bini Chijuka (retired) on Tuesday 9th August 2022 visited the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya.
The octogenarian Chijuka was one of the trailblazers in public relations practice in the military.
He was also the first to attain the rank of a Brigadier in the public relations directorate.
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| The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya in a cheerful mood while receiving in his office Brig. Gen. Frederick Bini Chijuka (Rtd) |
Officers, soldiers and civilian staff of the the Nigerian Army on Tuesday switched to celebration mood as a highly respected retired military officer of the Directorate of Army Public Relations especially went agog on Tuesday when he came calling.
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| (Brig. Gen. Chijuka being shown portrait photos of past Directors of the Directorate of Army Public Relations by the current Director, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu) |
While at the Army Headquarters, Brigadier General Chijuka paid an office call on the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya.
He thereafter visited the Directorate of Army Public Relations at the Headquarters.
The octogenarian is someone many rising officers now looked up to as he practiced public relations at the most trying times of military regimes in the 1980s and 1990s before he voluntarily retired from the Army in 1996.
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| (Brig. Gen. Chijuka (Rtd) in a group photograph with Brig. Gen. Nwachukwu and some Staff Officers of the Directorate) |
While in office, many veteran public relations practitioners and journalists have attested to his professionalism, skills and determination.
- SecurityWatchAfrica