New Chief Of Naval Staff Shakes Up Command Structure, Reasigns Senior Officers: Full List & Designation

<h4>New Chief Of Naval Staff Shakes Up Command Structure<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the new Chief of Naval Staff&comma; Vice Admiral Idi Abbas has reshaped the structural command of the Nigerian Navy as reproduced below<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>THE CHIEF OF THE NAVAL STAFF APPROVES THE APPOINTMENT OF SENIOR NIGERIAN NAVY OFFICERS<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1<em><strong>&period; The Chief of the Naval Staff Vice Admiral Idi Abbas on Thursday 30 October 2025 approved the appointment of 65 Rear Admirals in the Nigerian Navy &lpar;NN&rpar; to various positions at the Naval Headquarters &lpar;NHQ&rpar;&comma; Commands&comma; and Tri-Service Institutions&period; The redeployments signal the renewed effort of the NN to fulfil her constitutional mandate sequel to his takeover as the 23rd indigenous CNS&period; First on the list is Rear Admiral &lpar;R Adm&rpar; Suleiman Abdullahi formerly at the Defence Headquarters &lpar;DHQ&rpar;&comma; but now appointed to NHQ as the Chief of Logistics&period; R Adm Kasim Bushi formerly at the Headquarters Naval Training Command &lpar;HQ NAVTRAC&rpar; moves to International Maritime Institute of Nigeria &lpar;IMION&rpar; as Executive Director &lpar;ED&rpar;&comma; R Adm Suleiman Dahun previously at NHQ was appointed to DHQ as Director Defence Cooperation while R Adm Anenechukwu Ezenma formerly at the Defence Research and Development Bureau &lpar;DRDB&rpar; has been appointed to DHQ as Director Lesson Learnt&period; R Adm Samuel Ngatuwa who was at NHQ moves to DHQ as Director Project Management while R Adm Ibrahim Shehu is to remain Admiral Superintendent&comma; Naval Dockyard Limited&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>2&period; Also listed was R Adm Abdullahi Ahmed previously at the NHQ but now appointed Commandant&comma; National Defence College&period; Others are R Adm Musa Katagum formerly at DHQ now appointed to NHQ as Chief of Operations&comma; R Adm Fredrick Damtong appointed Chief of Naval Engineering at NHQ&comma; R Adm Abdul-Rasheed Haruna formerly at DHQ is appointed Chief of Training NHQ&comma; R Adm Hamza Ibrahim&comma; appointed Group Managing Director &lpar;GMD&rpar;&comma; Navy Holdings Limited &lpar;NHL&rpar;&comma; R Adm Sunday Oyegade will proceed to Defence Intelligence Agency &lpar;DIA&rpar; as Director Logistics while R Adm Gideon Kachim will move to DHQ as Chief of Defence Administration&comma; R Adm Saburi Lawal was reappointed to NHL as ED Business Development and Evaluation and R Adm Jonathan Mamman formerly at DHQ was appointed to NHQ as Chief of Administration&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>3&period; R Adm Kehinde Odubanjo was moved from NHQ to DRDB as the Director General&comma; R Adm John Okeke appointed to DHQ as Chief of Defence Civil Military Cooperation&comma; while R Adm Abolade Ogunleye appointed from NHQ to DHQ as Chief of Defence Training&period; Additionally&comma; R Adm Olatunde Olodude formerly at the Naval War College Nigeria &lpar;NWCN&rpar; is now appointed to NHQ as Chief of Policy and Plans&comma; R Adm Chijioke Onyemaobi will take over as Chief of Naval Transformation and R Adm Peter Zakaria becomes ED Administration and Human Resource NHL&period; Also appointed are R Adm Olufemi Adeleke from NHQ to Defence Space Agency &lpar;DSA&rpar; as Director Cyber Security&comma; R Adm Semiu Adepegba from Headquarters Central Naval Command &lpar;HQ CNC&rpar; to DHQ as Director of Defence Administration&comma; R Adm Abiodun Alade is now appointed Flag Officer Commanding &lpar;FOC&rpar; Logistics Command while R Adm Pakiribo Anabraba will take over as Chief of Naval Safety and Standard&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>4&period; R Adm Emmanuel Anakwe will proceed to National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies &lpar;NIPSS&rpar; as a Moderator&comma; R Adm Sunday Atakpa is now the Director of Hydrography&comma; while R Adm Abdul-Hamid Baba-Inna takes over as Navy Secretary&comma; and R Adm Bai Haruna Sabo remains as the MD Naval Building and Construction Company Limited&period; R Adm Etop Ebe will move from Naval Shipyard Limited to DRDB as Director Marine Research&comma; R Adm Patrick Effah is appointed Chief of Communications and Information Technology&comma; R Adm Bob-Manuel Effiong&comma; appointed to Headquarters Naval Doctrine Command &lpar;HQ NAVDOC&rpar; as FOC&comma; while R Adm Suleiman Ibrahim was appointed as FOC HQ CNC&period; R Adm Yusuf Idris was appointed from NHQ to DSA as Director of Logistics&comma; R Adm Abubakar Mustapha appointed FOC&comma; Western Naval Command &lpar;WNC&rpar;&comma; R Adm Danjuma Ndanusa appointed to DHQ as Director of Logistics&comma; R Adm Chidozie Okehie appointed to Eastern Naval Command &lpar;ENC&rpar; as the FOC and R Adm Ifeanyi Okpala appointed to DHQ as Director Transformation&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>5&period; Others are R Adm Sunday Yahaya who was appointed to DHQ as Director Defence Equipment Standardization and Harmonization&comma; R Adm Haruna Zego appointed MD&comma; Nigerian Navy Hotels and Suites Ltd&comma; R Adm Ebiobowei Zipele appointed FOC HQ NAVTRAC&comma; R Adm Muhsin Abba appointed from NHL to Admiralty Maritime Services Ltd as the MD&comma; R Adm Jonathan Ajodo appointed to Headquarters Logistics Command as the Chief Staff Officer &lpar;CSO&rpar; and R Adm Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan appointed from NIPSS to Office of the National Security Adviser as Director PC4&period; R Adm Victor Choji was moved from Nigerian Navy Basic Training School to HQ NAVTRAC as the CSO&comma; R Adm Mohammed Dahiru will now be the Director&comma; Project Implementation and Evaluation at NHQ&comma; and R Adm Nnamdi Ekwom was appointed to HQ WNC as CSO&period; R Adm Umaru Faruk will take over as MD Naval Engineering Services Limited and R Adm Vincent Gbaranwi was appointed to HQ CNC as the CSO&comma; while R Adm Steven Ibrahim proceeds to HQ ENC as the CSO&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>6&period; R Adm Madumom Ide was moved from DHQ to NHQ as Director Plans&comma; R Adm Paul Efe-Oghene will move to DRDB as Director Development and Production&comma; R Adm Desmond Igbo was appointed to HQ NAVDOC as CSO&comma; R Adm Michael Igwe is now the Director Weapon Engineering&period; R Adm Mohammed Muye takes over as Commandant&comma; NWCN&comma; R Adm Kolawole Oguntuga was appointed from Headquarters Eastern Fleet to NHQ as Director Manning&comma; R Adm Adedokun Siyanbade appointed from HQ NAVTRAC to NHQ as Director of Administration&comma; R Adm Raheem Taofeek appointed to NHQ as Director Veteran Affairs&period; Furthermore&comma; R Adm Kabiru Tanimu was appointed to DHQ as Director Special Operation Forces and R Adm Ikenna Ubani moves from DSA to Naval Shipyard Limited as Admiral Superintendent Naval Shipyard Limited&comma; R Adm Aniefiok Uko was appointed from Armed Forces Command and Staff College to NHQ as Director of Operations and R Adm Musiu Yussuff appointed to NHQ as Director Marine Engineering&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>7&period; While congratulating the newly appointed officers&comma; the Chief of the Naval Staff charged them to rededicate themselves to duty and justify the confidence reposed in them&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>8&period; You are please requested to disseminate this information to the general public&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>A ADAMS-ALIU<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>Commodore<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>Director of Information<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;30849" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-30849" style&equals;"width&colon; 291px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-30849" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Untitled-22-e1761853267982&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"New Chief Of Naval Staff Shakes Up Command Structure&comma; Reasigns Senior Officers&colon; Full List &amp&semi; Designation" width&equals;"291" height&equals;"118" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-30849" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>President Tinubu with new service chiefs<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;