Nigeria’s late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja was on Friday laid to rest in Abuja.
The internment took place
at the National Military Cemetery located in Karma Jiji amids tears and tributes.
The interment the marks the end of two days of funeral rites that began in Lagos earlier in the week.
Very senior officers carrying body of Late COAS, Lt. Gen. Lagbaja
His body was lowered to Mother Earth at exactly 4:41 pm after the ceremony that lasted four over two hours.
Late COAS, Lt. Gen. Lagbaja lowered to the grave
Lagbaja’s casket, draped in Nigeria’s green and white colours, arrived at the cemetery around 3 pm in a white funeral wagon after a funeral service at the National Christian Centre in Abuja.
President Bola Tinubu laying wresth on Lagbaja’s grave
Before the late COAS’internment, there was a service of songs, the previous day at the Army Headquarters Garrison Parade Ground, Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja.
The Nigerian Air Force aeroplane carrying Lagbaja’s body arrived at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja around 12:15 pm on Thursday
