President Tinubu Appoints New DGs For NIA, DSS
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Directors-General for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS).
In a statement on Monday, presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale made it known that Tinubu appointed Mohammed Mohammed as the new NIA boss while Adeola Ajayi has been appointed to lead the secret police.
These new appointments followed the resignation of Ahmed Rufai of the NIA and Yusuf Bichi of the DSS.
Tinubu had retained Bichi and Rufai in June 2023 when he fired all service chiefs and heads of security agencies.
“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 (ONSA).
“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 endeavors,” Ngelale said.
