First Lady, Aisha Buhari and her children paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Chief of Army Staff. Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru on Sunday afternoon, May 23.

The late Chief of Army Staff and 10 other military officers died in an aircraft crash on Friday May 21.

Disclosing her visit via Twitter, the First Lady described the death of the Army Chief and other military officers as a monumental loss to Nigeria.

She wrote: “I paid a condolence visit to the Family of the Late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.

“The death of the Late Chief Of Army Staff and the other military officers aboard the ill-fated aircraft is a monumental loss to their families and the Nation at large.”

Attahiru and ten other officers were on Friday killed in a plane crash in Kaduna.

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