NIGERIA – The special envoy sent to South Africa by President Muhammadu Buhari, has returned to the country after meeting with South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa. The special envoy, Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar held a closed door meeting with President Ramaphosa on Friday afternoon, where he conveyed President Buhari’s concern over recent events in South […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointments of Ambassador Apollonius Demenongu Agev and Kio Solomon Benibo Amieyeofori as Deputy Directors-General (DDGs) at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Details of the new appointees were not provided beyond the explanation that Mr. Agev is from Benue State in the North-Central geopolitical zone while Mr. Amieyeofori is from […]
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The presidency says Ahmed Abubakar, the new director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), neither failed promotion examinations twice nor holds dual nationality. Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. According to him, Abubakar has never been a Chadian and his […]
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The Presidency has frowned at media reports criticising the appointment of the new Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr Ahmed Rufa’i. A statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by Mr Abiodun Oladunjoye, Deputy Director (Information), Media Unit of the State House, quoted Malam Garba Shehu, a Presidential Spokesman as flaying the negative reports. Shehu […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the new director-general for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Abubakar, a retired career foreign service officer, has been a senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs/international relations. Abubakar had extensive experience working with the United Nations in peace support operations, mediation […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to sanction culprits of the huge foreign currency stashed in a private apartment in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, says Femi Adeshina, his media aide. In his statement on Tuesday, Adeshina said the president made the vow after receiving a report of the panel established to review the operational, technical […]
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Ayo Oke, former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over the $43.45 million discovered in an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos state. In a statement issued on Wednesday by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, the commission said Folashade, wife of the intelligence officer, had also […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a statement by its spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye, described the sack of Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), and Ayo Oke, former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) as a slap on the face of Nigerians. The party thereby called for the impeachment of the president. “First […]
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The committee that investigated the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal and the Director General of the NIA, Mr Ayo Oke, has submitted its reports. The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led committee submitted two reports to President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Osinbajo told State House correspondents that the president would study and […]
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The apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, where $43.5million was found in April, was bought for N360million by a company owned by Folashade Oke, wife of the suspended director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said this on Friday at a federal high court in Lagos. In an affidavit and […]
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