Albert Horsfall
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Albert Horsfall Albert Horsfall |
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| Director General of the State Security Service | |
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In office 1990–1992 |
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| Preceded by | Ismaila Gwarzo |
| Succeeded by | Peter Nwaoduah |
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December 22, 1941 Rivers State, Nigeria |
Chief Albert Korubo Horsfall is a former Nigerian security chief. Albert Horsfall was born on 22 December 1941 at Buguma in present-day Rivers State. Horsfall was a police man and pioneer member of the National Security Organization (NSO). He was also the first Director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the fifth Director general of the State Security Service (SSS) and the pioneer Chairman of the Oil Minerals Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC).
Albert Horsfall grew up in Degema, the administrative headquarters of Degema Division, one of the four divisions that made up the then Rivers Province. Horsfall's father was a successful merchant and he fathered 11 children; three of whom died. Albert left home at the age of seven to live with an uncle, Alex Horsfall, a top civil servant who lived at Degema Consulate. In 1947, Albert began his elementary schooling at Saint Batha School, Degema; he remembers walking from Degema Consulate, then an area populated by expatriates and Nigerian civil servants to his school.
In 1951, Horsfall's schooling was disrupted by the death of his uncle Albert in the United Kingdom while taking in-service training. Albert had to return to his parents in Buguma, where he completed his primary education at Saint Michael's School, Emuohua. In 1959, he graduated from Christ School of Commerce Onitsha, a school owned by his father's friend.
At age 17 in 1962, he joined the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for cadet training, but had to wait a year before this could begin. In 1965, he completed his training with the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). After a brief stint in Abakaliki, Horsfall was selected to join the Special Branch; at the time, the top three cadet graduates were selected for posting in either the A Department Force Headquarters, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), or the Special Branch. Soon after, Horsfall's boss and Special Branch commissioner, J. J. Sullivan, a retired British Major recognized Horsfall's potential and deployed him to the Border control unit at Enugu. At the time, most Nigerian officers in the Special Branch were regarded by the expatriate officers as being more loyal than intelligent.
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