Al-Amin Daggash

On 3 October 2019, Daggash received an honorary doctorate degree in military science from the Nigerian Defence Academy.

Daggash was active in the Borno Elders Forum as well as the Northern Elders Forum, both forums mounted severe pressure on the Goodluck Jonathan administration over its careless handling of the Boko Haram crisis especially between 2013 and 2015.

He was later awarded the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) in 2005.

During the Abdulsalami Abubakar administration, Daggash was third in command and for that, he was awarded the distinctive national honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) in the government gazette 179 volume 85 December 1998, which was rescinded by the Obasanjo administration.

Daggash was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore in December 1986. He was appointed Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Training Command of the Nigerian Air Force in 1990 and Chief of Air Force Logistics and Communications branch at the service HQ between 1992 and 1994. He was promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal in December 1991. Daggash was appointed as the deputy commandant and subsequently commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy between 1994 and 1998. He was then appointed as Chief of Defence Staff by General Abdulsalami Abubakar. He was promoted to the rank of Air Marshal on 10 June 1998. Daggash is considered to be one of the few thoroughbred officers who rose through the ranks without ever holding a political appointment even though the military were in government for 28 of the 36 years he served. He retired from service on 29 May in 1999. In recognition of his achievements, Daggash was inducted into the International Honor Roll, Air University presented at the Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama on 1 June 2004.

From 1985 to 1986 at the rank of Group Captain, Daggash attended the US Air War College (AWC) in Montgomery, Alabama where he gained a diploma in Educational Development from the International Officers School. He went on to receive a second diploma in Defence and Strategic Studies from the AWC, Air University, Alabama.

Daggash was commissioned as Second-Lieutenant in the Nigerian Air Force on 27 September 1967. Over the course of his long and illustrious career, he attended several engineering and aircraft maintenance courses, such as:

In August 1963, he was enlisted into the Nigerian Air Force as an Officer Cadet. He was part of the first batch of Nigerian Air Force officer cadets and received his basic military training in Kaduna. He completed his military training in Faßberg Air Base, Germany where he obtained a diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering.

Al-Amin Musa Daggash (born 1 October 1942) is a retired Air Marshal of the Nigerian Air Force who served as the 7th Chief of the Nigerian Defence Staff from 1998 to 1999 under the General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime.

Al-Amin Daggash was born in 1942 in Kirenowa, Marte local government of Borno State. He is of the Shuwa Arab ethnic stock and one of the eldest children of super Permanent-Secretary, Musa Daggash. His father was a civil servant who worked in many parts of the country, Daggash had his primary education in several schools in the North and South of Nigeria. He began his secondary education at the Abeokuta Grammar School in Ogun State, he then completed it at Science Secondary School, Kuru in Plateau State.