President Bola Tinubu on Monday approved the appointments of Messrs Mohammed Mohammed and Adeola Oluwatosin-Ajayi as the new directors general of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS) respectively.
“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 endeavours,” spokesman for the president, Mr Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement.
The new appointments follow the resignation of the previous NIA and DSS chiefs.
Mohammed who graduated from the Bayero University, Kano, in 1990 had served as an ambassador in North Korea, Pakistan, and Sudan., and at the State House, Abuja.
He joined the NIA in 1995 and 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.
Adeola-Ajayi, on the other hand, rose through the ranks to attain his current post of assistant director general of the DSS,
He had, at various times, served as state director of the service in Bauchi, Enugu, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Kogi. states
