David Akpode Ejoor
RCDS, PSC, (10 January 1932 – 10 February 2019) was a
Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Army (NA) is the land force of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is governed by the Nigerian Army Council (NAC). The Chief of Army Staff is the highest ranking military officer of the Nigerian Army.
History Formation
The Nigerian ...
officer who served as
Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
Early life
He was the first Nigerian Commandant of the
Nigerian Defence Academy
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is a military university based in Kaduna, Nigeria that trains officer cadets for commissioning into one of the three services of the Nigerian Armed Forces: the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. The duration of ...
and was once administrator of the now-defunct
Mid-Western Region. Ejoor was the governor of the Mid-Western State of Nigeria, during the
Biafra Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Nigerian–Biafran War or the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence ...
. He then served as Chief of Army Staff from January 1971 to July 1975. Ejoor died in Lagos on 10 February 2019.
He was 87.
Works
*Ejoor David: Reminiscences, 1989
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References
External links
*Nigerian-army.org
Military biography
Nigerian generals
1932 births
Nigerian Defence Academy Commandants
Nigerian Defence Academy people
2019 deaths
Chiefs of Army Staff (Nigeria)
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