President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi and appointed Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi as replacement.
Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, announced this in a statement on Monday.
In the statement, Tinubu also approved the appointment of new director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). He is Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed.
The statement says 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, Mr Adeola Ajayi, 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.
Ajuri said 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 bedevilling 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 endeavours.
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