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How newlywed NAF pilot, Alfred Olufade died alongside COAS in plane crash

Fresh facts have emerged on some of the other 10 officers that died alongside the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, in a plane crash in Kaduna, on Friday, May 21.

IDOMA VOICE gathered that the NAF pilot, Alfred Olufade, who also died in the crash, just got married couple of weeks ago.

The Nigerian Defence headquarters has since ordered investigation of the crash which claimed the lives of some of the nation’s best military brains.

The spokesman of the Nigerian army, Yerima Mohammad, confirmed the death of Attahiru and the other officers in the military plane crash in Kaduna on Friday evening.

See photo of the late NAF pilot, Olufade and his newlywed wife below;

Sunny Green Itodo

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