President Tinubu Appoints New Directors General For SSS, NIA
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, August 26, 2024 approved the appointment of Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi and Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed as Director-General of the State Security Service and National Intelligence Agency respectively.
This was contained in a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity in which he said that the appointments followed the resignation of the previous NIA and DSS chiefs.
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.
Similarly, Ambassador Mohammed has had an illustrious career in the foreign service since joining the NIA in 1995 and 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.
President Tinubu expects that the new security chiefs will work assiduously to reposition the two intelligence agencies for better results and charged 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 thanked the outgoing Directors-General of the two pivotal intelligence agencies for their services to the nation and wished them success in their future endeavours.
