The Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, on Saturday tendered his resignation to President Bola Tinubu.
The reason for his resignation is not yet known.
It would be recalled that under Abubakar's watch in October 2022 that operatives of the agency stormed the head office of Peoples Gazette in Abuja.
The newspaper had published in a series of three articles - a memo that spy chiefs at the foreign intelligence office had written to former President Muhammadu Buhari, warning him against retaining Rufai Abubakar as the director-general on the grounds that he lacked intellectual and physiological rigour for the position.
Nearly three weeks after the articles, four officers arrived in a white Toyota Hilux truck and intimidated security personnel at the gate and forced their way into the offices on the second floor.