Profile of a spymaster: Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) DG Ahmed Rufai Abubakar

The Nigerian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Director General was born to in Kofar Durbi area of Katsina in Northern Nigeria. Quranic scholarship took his uncle to Republic of Chad and he took young Abubakar with him where he was partly brought up. Abubakar later married his cousin, the daughter of his uncle–Alhaji Ali KD.