Tinubu Names New Secret Police Chiefs

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Directors-General of the Department of State Services, DSS and the National Intelligence Agency, NIA.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, announced the appointments in a statement on Monday.

The appointments followed the earlier resignation last week of Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the DG of the NIA.

GWG.ng reports that Yusuf Bichi was until Monday, the Director General of the DSS.

Bichi and Yusuf were about the only security chiefs that were not replaced by Tinubu a month or so after he was inaugurated president.

According to Ngelale, Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed is the new Director-General of the NIA, while Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi is the new Director-General of the DSS.

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 1990 graduate of Bayero University, Kano had served in North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, and at the State House, Abuja.

The new DSS Director-General rose through the ranks to attain his current post of Assistant Director-General of the Service.

Ajayi had, at various times, served as State Director of the DSS in Bauchi, Enugu, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Kogi States.

The new appointments followed the resignation of the previous NIA and DSS chiefs.

Ngelale said: “President Tinubu 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.

“The President 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.”

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