Albert Korubo Horsfall was born on 22 December 1941 and is a Nigerian former high ranking security and intelligence official.
18 Facts About Albert Horsfall
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Albert Horsfall was a police officer and pioneer member of the National Security Organization.
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Albert Horsfall was the first director of the National Intelligence Agency ; and the second director of the State Security Service.
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Albert Horsfall was born on 22 December 1941 at Buguma in present-day Rivers State.
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Albert Horsfall grew up in Degema, the administrative headquarters of Degema Division, one of the four divisions that made up the then Rivers Province.
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In 1947, Albert Horsfall 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.
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Albert Horsfall had to return to his parents in Buguma, where he completed his primary education at Saint Michael's School, Emohua.
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Albert Horsfall was one of a couple of young women he had helped move to Lagos to continue their education during the civil war, and he knew her family.
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Albert Horsfall remained with the Special Branch until 1976, when the department was excised from the NPF due to the creation of the National Security Organization.
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Albert Horsfall eventually left the NSO without official leave to study law in 1979.
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Albert Horsfall was able to do this during the handover period between the outgoing director general, Colonel Abdullahi Mohammed, and the incoming director general, Umaru Shinkafi.
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Albert Horsfall alleged that Shinkafi was sympathetic to his cause because Shinkafi himself, a former commissioner of police, had taken leave of the Police to study law.
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Albert Horsfall rose through the ranks of the NSO and eventually became the agency's second deputy director general, replacing Peter Odukwe after he was retired in 1984 during a purge of Shinkafi-era operatives by the new NSO director general, Ambassador Mohammed Lawal Rafindadi.
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Albert Horsfall held this position till the dissolution of the NSO in 1986 by the new military government headed by General Ibrahim Babangida.
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The attempt failed and Nigeria suffered great diplomatic and economic repercussions, Albert Horsfall has denied any involvement in the attempt.
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From 1993, he was the first chairman of the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, a special purpose vehicle established by the government to bring about rapid development to the oil-producing Niger Delta; Albert Horsfall is indigenous to the area.
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Albert Horsfall hired Goodluck Jonathan, later a president of Nigeria, for OMPADEC, Jonathan's first public service job.
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Albert Horsfall is retired from public service, and is enjoying his normal pension.