Malu, former chief of army staff, is dead

Victor Malu, chief of army staff from 1999 to 2001 and force commander of the ECOMOG peace-keeping force in Liberia from 1996 to 1998, is dead.

According to Punch, Malu died early Monday morning in Cairo, Egypt.

He was 70 years old.

In September 2008, Malu went into a coma and was taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where he was placed on life support in the intensive care unit.

Later, he was transferred to a hospital in London, and after treatment for stroke was discharged from hospital.

He chaired the tribunal that tried Oladipo Diya, a retired general and other officers for attempting to overthrow the Sani Abacha regime in 1997.