National Security Agencies Act

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES ACT

Arrangement of Sections

1. Establishment of National Security Agencies.

2. General duties of the National Security Agencies.

3. Principal officers of the Agencies.

4. Co-ordinator on National Security.

5. Establishment of advisory councils.

6. Instruments relating to the advisory councils, the structure, etc., of the Agencies.

7. Repeal.

8. Short title.

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES ACT

An Act to disband the Nigerian Security Organisation and to create three security agencies, charging each with the conduct of the relevant aspect of the national security and other related matters.

[1986 No. 19.)

[5th June, 1986] [Commencement.)

1. Establishment of National Security Agencies

There shall, for the effective conduct of national security, be established the following National Security Agencies, that is to say-

(a) the Defence Intelligence Agency;

(b) the National Intelligence Agency; and

2. General duties of the National Security Agencies

(a) the prevention and detection of crime of a military nature against the security of Nigeria;

(b) the protection and preservation of all military classified matters concerning the security of Nigeria, both within and outside Nigeria;

(c) such other responsibilities affecting defence intelligence of a military nature, both within and outside Nigeria, as the President, or the Chief of Defence Staff, as the case may be, may deem necessary.

(a) the general maintenance of the security of Nigeria outside Nigeria, concerning matters that are not related to military issues; and

(b) such other responsibilities affecting national intelligence outside Nigeria as the National Defence Councilor the President, as the case may be, may deem necessary.

(a) the prevention and detection within Nigeria of any crime against the internal security of Nigeria;

(b) the protection and preservation of all non-military classified matters concerning the internal security of Nigeria; and