The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Taoreed Lagbaja, has expressed his commiserations on behalf of officers, soldiers and civilian staff of the Nigerian Army to the family, relations and friends of the deceased Major General Aderonke Kale (rtd) CFR.
The Chief of Army Staff , Lieutenant-General Taoreed Lagbaja, has expressed his commiserations on behalf of officers, soldiers and civilian staff of the Nigerian Army to the family, relations and friends of the deceased Major General Aderonke Kale CFR. Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations, in a statement, described her demise as a great loss to the Army and the military community as a whole.
'General Kale worked briefly in Britain and returned to Nigeria in the year 1971 to join the Nigerian Army in 1972. 'Her competence as a psychiatrist was recognized in 1973 when she qualified as a Consultant Psychiatrist, and in 1982, she became Chief Consultant. In the course of her service from 1980 to 1985, her management acumen came to bear in her career when she became the Commanding Officer of the Military Hospital Ibadan.