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President Bola Tinubu has announced the appointment of two new Directors-General to lead key security agencies in Nigeria.
Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed has been selected as the new Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), while Mr. Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi will serve as the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS).
The appointments were made public through a press release issued by Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Monday, August 26, 2024.
The press release reveals that Ambassador Mohammed has had an illustrious career in the foreign service since joining the NIA in 1995.
“He had served in various roles, culminating in his promotion to the rank of Director and his subsequent appointment as the head of the Nigerian mission to Libya,” the statement noted
It also added that the 1990 graduate of Bayero University, Kano, had served in North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, and at the State House, Abuja.
The new DSS Director-General, Mr. Adeola Ajayi, on his part, “rose through the ranks to attain his current post of Assistant Director-General of the Service. He had, at various times, served as State Director in Bauchi, Enugu, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Kogi,” it further said.
The new appointments follow the resignation of the previous NIA and DSS chiefs.
President Tinubu, according to the press release, expects that the new security chiefs will work assiduously to reposition the two intelligence agencies for better results and charges them to bring their experience to bear in tackling the security challenges bedeviling the country through enhanced collaboration with sister agencies and in surgical alignment with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
The President also thanks the outgoing Directors-General of the two pivotal intelligence agencies for their services to the nation while wishing them success in their future endeavours, the press release concluded.
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