Following the death of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari to COVID-19, the president on Tuesday appointed professor Agboola Ibrahim Gambari  as the new Chief of Staff.

Professor Gambari is a Nigerian scholar, diplomat and an indigene of Kwara State.

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Late Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff, died after contracting coronavirus during an official trip to Germany and the United Kingdom in early March.

Gambari, from Kwara State was the Minister of External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.