Biography of halilu akiluku

Nigerian spymaster

Haliru Akilu (born 2 November 1947) is a Nigerian general who was Director of National Intelligence and Director of Military Intelligence at various times in the 1990s.^[1]

Early life

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Akilu was born and educated in Kano State.

Military career

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Akilu was commissioned in 1967 after he had attended the Nigerian Defence Academy.

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In 1969, he fought during the Nigerian Civil War as a company commander and was wounded. He later became, commander of the 146 Infantry Battalion that suppressed the Maitatsine religious riots.^[2]

Education

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He later attended Junior Staff College, Warminister (1973), Pakistan Command and Staff College (1979), King's College London (1983), and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru (1989).

Military intelligence

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Akilu later joined the Directorate of Military Intelligence. As a lieutenant colonel, he took part from the conceptual stages of the 1