NIGERIA’S President Bola Tinubu forced out the country’s security chiefs and the head of police on Monday and replaced them with new appointments, in a major reshuffle of the country’s defence forces.
Tinubu, who was sworn into office on May 29, has named new commanders of the defence forces, army, and navy air force with immediate effect, the secretary to the government of the federation said in a statement.
Nigeria’s military has been fighting Islamist insurgents in the northeast for more than a decade, and banditry and kidnappings in the northwest as insecurity has spread to most parts of the country.
The 71-year-old Tinubu appointed Nuhu Ribadu, a former senior police officer as the new National Security Adviser and Major General Christopher Musa as the new Chief of Defence Staff.
