Al-amin Musa Daggash is a retired Nigerian Air Force General who served as the 7th Chief of the Nigerian Defence Staff from 1998-1999 under the General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime. He was the first non-army officer to hold that position in Nigeria's history, before him, this position was exclusively occupied by Army officers. He was also the first and till date the only non-army officer to be the commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. 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of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) in the government gazette 179 volume 85 of December 1998, which was rescinded by the Obasanjo administration. He was later awarded the national honour of Comm