predecessor successor death_date birth_place office width birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
yakubu gowon hassan katsina may 1968 gboko lga , benue state , nigeria chief of army staff 150px 12 april 1937 may 1967 joseph akahan
 may 1968 joseph akahan
joseph akahan

lt. colonel joseph -lrb- joe -rrb- akahan was chief of army staff -lrb- nigeria -rrb- from may 1967 until may 1968 , when he was killed in a helicopter crash during the nigerian civil war .
