Tinubu appoints new NIA, DSS directors-general
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Directors-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS).
Insurers generate N1.7tr in six years
THE Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) has said that insurance companies generated about N1.72 trillion gross premium in six yeaom 2011 to 2016.
NIA recommends path to insurance growth in W/Africa
THE Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) has harped on the need for complete autonomy and capacity building for insurance regulators in the Africa.
Don’t destroy NIA, Nigeria can’t survive without it – Horsefall, pioneer DG NIA
Chief Albert Horsefall is the founding Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA. He was also Director General of the State Security Service, SSS.
That NIA’s black-budget and mysterious whistle-blower
PREPARATORY to the daring and merciless military operations against Boko Haram members, top officers of security and intelligence agencies were in Lagos and Abuja, towards the end of 2014 to interact with critical stakeholders that matter in shaping public perception and opinions. The then President of Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, Mr. Femi Adesina was […]
PDP presidential campaign didn’t receive a kobo of NIA cash – Kayode
Former minister and spokesman of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has distanced the campaign organisation from the reported N13 billion cash found in a National Intelligence Agency, NIA, safe house in Ikoyi, Lagos.
NIA boss’ probe: Don’t leak national secrets — ANYAOKU
Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has thrown his weight behind yesterday’s warning by former Minister of External Affairs, Prof, Bolaji Akinyemi, that secrets on the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, should not be leaked to the public.
The $289m special vote for nia was economic sabotage
FOR any economist worthy of the name it must have appeared like fiction or fairy tales. Who would have thought that a President of any nation, even a Banana Republic, said to be a Ph.D holder would in one day sign off N289 million to a security outfit without authority from the National Assembly, NASS, and have the funds withdrawn illegally from a government agency? Saul Bellow has pointed to how power destroys the sanity of most people. But, power allied with stupidity amounts to a double curse on the people led by such individuals. As German philosopher Frederick Von Schiller, 1759-1805 (VBQ p 235) has advised us “Against stupidity [of the leaders] the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
What the NIA N13b Slush Fund Was Meant For: Following the money trail
Little by little, droplets of information concerning the N13 billion uncovered in an Ikoyi luxury apartment seems to be seeping onto the public space. Yet, instead of the public being enlightened more and more by the bits of information that come through, the waters actually appear to be muddied up the more. No, this is not about the outlandish claim that the money belongs to Rivers state government where a former State Governor was alleged to have diverted it from
Reps probe NIA over N13bn Ikoyi cash
THE House of Representatives, yesterday, mandated its Committee on National Intelligence to investigate the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, over the N13 billion cash found by the EconomIc and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Insurers should brace up for risk based supervision — NIA
THE Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) has called on its members to be prepare for the anticipated Risk-Based Supervision (RBS) regime.
Suspended NIA boss, Oke did not cry – Presidency
The Presidency has condemned the media reports that the suspended Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ayo Oke, had cried during his visit to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday.
Kudos, knocks greet Buhari’s suspension of SGF, NIA boss
The suspension of Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, NIS, Ambassador Ayo Oke, and Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr. David Babachir Lawal, elicited dramatic responses from both officials who were involved in a mild drama on hearing of the development.
NIA didn’t get Ikoyi cash from CBN — Okorafor
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has dismissed insinuations that the N13 billion discovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a luxury apartment at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos was moved directly fromthe bank to the National Intelligence Agency, NIA.
Recovered $43M, £27,000, N23M: NIA moves to ‘officially’ reclaim Ikoyi cash
ndications emerged last night that the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, will officially apply to reclaim the $43 million, £27,000 and N23 million recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from a building on Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, according to sources.
FG appoints NIA DG as Deputy Commissioner Technical, NAICOM
THE Federal Government has appointed Mr. Sunday Olorundare Thomas, the former director-general, Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) as the deputy commissioner, technical, of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and Mr. Dikko Aliyu Abdulrahman, as director-general of the National Pension Commission (PenCom).
