General Officer Commanding (GOC) six divisions of Nigerian Army in Port-Harcourt, Major-General, John Olu Irefin, has died from COVID-19 complications.
The acting Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General, Sagir Musa, announced this in a statement on Thursday.
He said that the GOC was attending the annual Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja before he took ill and died.
The conference has since been cancelled by the army and participants asked to go into 14(day isolation.
Participants comprised principal staff officers, GOCs, Commandants of Army Schools, Commanders of Army Operations.
