Author: Major General MT Ibrahim (Rtd)

My Dear Sir, THE News of your death breath-in like the cold wind of the northern Nigerian harmattan. It sends cold chill into the bone as very few people including myself had imagined this time it’s final, that your reported hospitalisation is terminal. I therefore, wish to pencil down a little tribute to your memory. I have always been your admirer  since my commissioning as a junior officer coming out of NDA. In our NDA years it was rumoured that our training was to be cut short by about one and half year to join you in prosecuting the Chadian…