Paul Dike

• Officer Cadet, Nigerian Defence Academy, 22 January 1973. • Commissioned Pilot Officer, Nigerian Air Force, 21 June 1975. • Flying Officer, 22 January 1977 • Flight Lieutenant, 22 January 1981 • Squadron Leader, 22 July 1985 • Wing Commander, 22 January 1991 • Group Captain, 22 January 1996 • Air Commodore, 22 January 2001 • Air Vice Marshal, 22 January 2004 • Air Marshal, 30 May 2006 made CAS the same day. • Air Chief Marshal, 20 August 2008 ==Appointments and positions held==

ACM Paul Dike held the following office prior to becoming Chief of Defence Staffs • Staff Officer I, Operations Headquarters, Tactical Air Command • Instructor Pilot, Operational Conversion Unit, MiG-21 fighter jets • Chief Flying Instructor, 303 Flying Training School, FTS. • Commander, ECOMOG Air Detachment, Freetown, Sierra Leone • Directing Staff, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna. • Commander, National Air Defence Corps. • Deputy Director, Plans, Nigerian Air Force Headquarters. • Director of Operations, Nigerian Air Force Headquarters. • Commander, Nigerian Air Force Station, Yola, Adamawa State. • Airport Commandant, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. • Appointed Commander, the Nigerian Presidential Air Fleet, PAF by the late General Sani Abacha • Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Training Command, Kaduna. • Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Makurdi, Benue State. • Appointed the 15th Chief of Air Staff (CAS) on 1 June 2006 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. • Appointed the Chief of Defence Staff, Defence Headquarters, Abuja on 20 August 2008 by President Umaru Musa Yar'adua. On 8 September 2010, thereby becoming the First Nigerian Airforce officer to attain the Rank of Air Chief Marshal ==References==