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The National Security Council is an advisory body to the President of Nigeria dealing with matters of national security. [1] Meetings of members of the NSC are held in State House, Abuja, at the Council Chambers. [2] It was created in 1976 by the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo, after the failed coup by Buka Suka Dimka.
The National Security Organisation was established after the assassination of Murtala Muhammed with legal instrument Decree Number 27 of 1976 to co-ordinate internal security, foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities; this was part of a larger reorganisation that saw the demobilisation of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Nigerian Civil Service.
The external security and intelligence activities of the NSO were centred around Nigeria's rising profile as an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member and how this affected the interests of foreign powers in Nigeria, also the NSO helped articulate the Nigerian government's foreign policy as it concerned Africa in the anti ...
Mohammed Mohammed, who headed Nigeria's mission to Libya, will lead the National Intelligence Agency. Adeola Ajayi will helm the Department of State Security. Nigeria's president appoints new ...
The State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS), [1] is a security agency in Nigeria and one of three successor organisations to the National Security Organization (NSO). The agency is under the Presidency of Nigeria, and it reports its activities direct to the President, office of the ONSA, headquartered ...
Nigerian security forces deployed in major cities and the government said it was open to dialogue ahead of planned protests on Thursday against a cost of living crisis and poor governance that ...
The State Security Service (SSS) was made responsible for domestic intelligence, with Director General Ismaila Gwarzo and Deputy Director Lt. Col. A.K. Togun. The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) handled external intelligence and counterintelligence. The DIA was tasked with military-related intelligence outside and inside Nigeria
Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser who allegedly masterminded the $2 billion arms deal. The $2 billion arms deal, or Dasukigate, [1] is an arms procurement deal in Nigeria that resulted in the embezzlement of $2 billion through the office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser. [2]