President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated three seasoned intelligence and diplomacy professionals as non career ambassadors to represent Nigeria in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Zig Diaries
Diplomacy
Date: Wednesday 26
November 2025
Time: 09:47 WAT
Location: 📍 Abuja, Nigeria
The nominees are
Ambassador Ayodele Oke, Retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are and Ambassador Amin
Mohammed Dalhatu. The announcement was made via a post by the Special Adviser
to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, on his X handle
@Onanuga1956. The appointments will be finalised following screening and
confirmation by the Nigerian Senate.
Ambassador Amin Mohammed
Dalhatu previously served as Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Korea under the
Buhari administration, following his appointment in 2016.
Ambassador Ayodele Oke is
an Emory University alumnus and former Director General of the National
Intelligence Agency. He also represented Nigeria at the Secretariat of the
Commonwealth of Nations in London.
Retired Colonel Lateef
Kayode Are is a respected intelligence officer who served as Director General
of the State Security Service from 1999 to 2007, was National Security Adviser
in 2010, and was an officer in the Directorate of Military Intelligence. He
holds a First Class Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Ibadan.
The nominations signal a strategic diplomatic shift, leveraging depth in security and intelligence to reinforce Nigeria’s representation in three of its most critical international missions.
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