predecessor successor office term_start article_title term_end name
aliyu mohammed gusau peter nwaoduah owoye andrew azazi afakriya gadzama nigeria state security service 's national security adviser director general of the september 2010 1999 kayode are
 4 october 2010 august 2007 kayode are
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lateef kayode are is a retired nigerian army colonel who was director general of the nigerian state security service -lrb- sss -rrb- from 1999 to 2007 and briefly served as national security adviser in 2010 .
are served as an officer in the directorate of military intelligence up until retirement by general sani abacha .
are was appointed as director-general of the state security service by president olusegun obasanjo , served in that post throughout president obasanjo 's two terms -lrb- 1999-2007 -rrb- , and was replaced afakiriya gadzama , who was appointed in august 2007 by president umaru yar ` adua .
