Nigeria's president appoints new security and intelligence chiefs By Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu appointed new national security and foreign intelligence chiefs on Monday, a week after their predecessors abruptly resigned, as Africa's most populous country grapples with insurgency in the northeast and rampant kidnappings.
Mohammed Mohammed, who headed the Nigerian mission in Libya, will head the National Intelligence Agency. Adeola Ajayi will be in charge of the Ministry of State Security.
The previous heads of the agency, appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, did not give a reason for their resignation.
They may fall due to poor national security performance, or be fired along with civil servants from the north to be replaced by Tinubu's own Yoruba, said Confidence MacHarry, senior security analyst at SBM Intelligence.
After incessant attacks by armed groups, Tinubu is increasing intelligence gathering to deal with the countrywide kidnapping for ransom by armed groups and over a decade of insurgency in the northeast.
