Emotions ran high on Friday as the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, was laid to rest at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja, concluding a distinguished military career that spanned decades.
The burial ceremony, which marked the culmination of two days of funeral rites, saw family members, colleagues, and dignitaries pay their final respects to the fallen hero.
Lagbaja’s casket, draped in the national green and white flag, arrived at the cemetery at exactly 3:00 p.m. in a white funeral wagon following a solemn funeral service at the National Christian Centre.
His remains were committed to Mother Earth at 4:41 p.m. after an over two-hour ceremony steeped in military tradition.
The rites began earlier in the week with a service of songs held at the Army Headquarters Garrison Parade Ground, Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja.
On Thursday, his body was flown into Abuja aboard a Nigerian Air Force aircraft, which landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi…