Tag: Babagana Monguno

The person needed for President Tinubu’s NSA By Yushau A. Shuaib

Emporium Reporters

Names are being dropped, mostly in security and media circles, on the person likely to become appointed as Nigeria’s next National Security Adviser (NSA) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.   The current holder and longest-serving NSA in Nigeria, Babagana Monguno is a retired Military General.   Apart from the former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Interior, Major General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd.) and retired police chief and pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, other serving security, as well as intelligence, chiefs are…

Monguno’s missing $1b: Fraud or Freudian slip?, by Festus Adedayo

Emporium Reporters

Unbeknown to many Nigerians who haven’t heard him speak, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd), President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Security Adviser, secretly admires self-styled Mr. Bombastic, Jamaican-American reggae musician, singer and Disc Jockey, Orville Richard Burrel, better known by his stage name, Shaggy. Suave and glib, with words gliding effortlessly through his mouth like okra soup skids at the slightest prodding, Monguno can electrify and disarm his audience, not with guns but with bombasts. A few weeks ago, Monguno addressed the press on what he labeled the Federal Government’s newfound resolve…